Data on incidence of enteric fever are unreliable due to the lack of specificity and sensitivity of the current gold standard diagnostic methods (blood culture or serological Widal and Felix ...
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The Coalition against Typhoid Secretariat Hosts Typhoid Symposium
On Tuesday, October 27, the Coalition against Typhoid (CaT) Secretariat hosted a symposium at the 64th Annual American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The ...
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Read more9th International Conference on Typhoid, Invasive NTS Disease Held in Bali, Indonesia
Global public health experts discuss future strategies of combating typhoid, invasive NTS disease
Read moreSurveillance for Enteric Fever in Asia Project (SEAP) kicks off in Kathmandu with first site investigator meeting
The first site investigator meeting of the Surveillance for Enteric Fever in Asia Project (SEAP) took place February 25 – February 28 in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Read moreCaT in Bangladesh: Advocating for Current and Future Typhoid Vaccines
Earlier this month, the Coalition against Typhoid (CaT), along with partners at the Bangladesh Pediatric Association, the International Vaccine Institute andthe International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), ...
Read moreCoalition against Typhoid (CaT) featured in The Lancet
A recent expert meeting on typhoid epidemiological modeling, organized by the Coalition against Typhoid, marks one of the first attempts to jolt governments into action against typhoid fever, a disease ...
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