Press release from Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance: Gavi-supported introduction of new and improved typhoid conjugate vaccine to offer protection against increasingly drug-resistant disease KARACHI (15 November 2019) — Pakistan today ...
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“A wake-up call”: A surgeon raises his voice for typhoid conjugate vaccines
Dr. Raja Khalid Shabbir is a resident in surgery at Holy Family Hospital (HFH) in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, just outside of the capital city of Islamabad. HFH is a government-run teaching ...
Read moreHow Pakistan’s new generation of disease hunters helped expose XDR typhoid
The outbreak of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) typhoid in Pakistan has now been going on for more than two years. As is the case in most low- and middle-income countries, Pakistan ...
Read moreSequencing a superbug: How typhoid became extensively drug-resistant
The bacteria that causes typhoid fever, Salmonella Typhi, is a smart one. We know this because our laboratory has been sequencing the DNA of S. Typhi strains that infect people ...
Read moreNewly-prequalified typhoid conjugate vaccine used in outbreak response
Health officials and local researchers have launched an emergency vaccination campaign to stem an outbreak of ceftriaxone-resistant typhoid in Hyderabad, Pakistan. The outbreak has sickened more than 800 people since ...
Read moreThe perfect storm in Pakistan: Unsafe drinking water and drug-resistant typhoid
Nearly one year ago, a case of ceftriazone-resistant typhoid was reported at Aga Khan University Hospital in Hyderabad, Pakistan. Within the week, there were two more cases reported from the ...
Read moreAga Khan University Team Investigates Outbreak Of Antibiotic Resistant Typhoid Fever
Investigators from the Aga Khan University (AKU) are actively investigating a large outbreak of typhoid fever bacteria that are resistant to ceftriaxone, an antibiotic commonly used by physicians to treat ...
Read moreStories of Typhoid: Samina
This is Samina’s story as told by her father, Ejaz Somro, to Attaullah Baig and Sultan Karim of Aga Khan University Hospital. Samina recently became ill with ceftriaxone-resistant typhoid during ...
Read moreStories of Typhoid: Gul Rahim
This is Gul Rahim’s story of typhoid, as told to Attaullah Baig of Aga Khan University Hospital on January 7, 2017, and translated into English. The interview was conducted in ...
Read moreStories of Typhoid: Asim
Meet Asim. In his low-income urban neighborhood in Pakistan, it can seem as if the one thing more widespread than typhoid is misinformation about typhoid. Crucial information on the prevention ...
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