World Immunization Week, celebrated in the last week of April, is a global campaign that aims to highlight the importance of collective action to promote vaccination. In 2024, World Immunization ...
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Tag: drug-resistant typhoid
The typhoid community gathers in Rwanda to collaborate, share data, and maintain momentum for typhoid control
As the 13th International Conference on Typhoid & Other Invasive Salmonelloses, kicks off today in Kigali, Rwanda, we are excited to learn about new typhoid research, hear about advances in ...
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Drug resistant typhoid: what does it all mean?
Antimicrobial resistance, multidrug-resistant, antibiotic resistant, drug resistance – what does it all mean? Research shows that the technical terminology used to communicate the phenomenon of bacteria and viruses becoming non-susceptible ...
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What the spread of extensively drug-resistant Salmonella Typhi tells us about future outbreaks
Drug-resistant typhoid is a growing concern as the number of cases resistant to one or more antibiotics is increasing globally. This suggests that existing antibiotics may not effectively treat typhoid. ...
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Nepal’s typhoid conjugate vaccine campaign: a catalyst to reach zero-dose children
Nepal bears one of the most significant global burdens of typhoid, with approximately 82,000 cases resulting in 900 deaths annually. Most of these cases afflict children younger than age 15 ...
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Ten years of surveillance finds a variable but persistently high typhoid burden in Kibera, Kenya
Typhoid remains a public health threat in many countries, particularly in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Understanding a country’s typhoid burden is often one of the first steps toward prevention ...
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Transmission of drug-resistant typhoid is more local than global
Rising drug resistance, where currently available treatments for an illness are no longer effective, is a major public health concern. A myriad of research has documented increased rates of drug-resistant ...
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Newly available genomic data highlights the need for urgent action to stop the emergence and spread of drug-resistant typhoid
For many high-income countries, typhoid is a disease of the past, thanks in part to municipal investments and improvements in safe water, sanitation, and hygiene infrastructure (WASH). However, one-third of ...
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Drug resistance: It takes a global village
Why drug resistance should be on our radar Drug resistance occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites change over time and no longer respond to treatment. As a result, medicines ...
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The alarming spread of drug-resistant typhoid
During the past few decades, new and increasingly drug-resistant strains of Salmonella Typhi, the bacteria that causes typhoid, have emerged and spread rapidly. Antibiotics have worked as an effective treatment ...
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