In 2019, Pakistan made history as the first country to introduce typhoid conjugate vaccines (TCV) into its routine childhood immunization program. Six years later, the country has vaccinated more than ...
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Tag: surveillance
Data collection in Cambodia: Ensuring high-quality data to support decision-making
This blog is part of a series on data collection, highlighting how local data are identified and used by countries to understand typhoid burden and aid in decision-making for TCV ...
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Data collection in Burkina Faso: Coordinating local partners to gather data on typhoid burden
This blog is part of a series on data collection, highlighting how local data are identified and used by countries to understand typhoid burden and aid in decision-making for TCV ...
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Analyse de l’eau : de nouvelles méthodes de surveillance pour détecter la typhoïde en Côte d’Ivoire
Le dimanche 17 novembre, le Sabin Vaccine Institute a tenu un symposium intitulé « Closing the Typhoid Surveillance Gap: Operationalizing Novel Surveillance Methods to Describe Enteric Fever Burden and Support Vaccine Decision-Making » (Remédier aux lacunes ...
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Testing the waters – New surveillance methods for typhoid detection in Côte d’Ivoire
Pour lire ce blog en français, veuillez cliquer ici On Sunday, November 17, the Sabin Vaccine Institute hosted a symposium titled “Closing the Typhoid Surveillance Gap: Operationalizing Novel Surveillance Methods ...
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Understanding typhoid burden in Africa
Diagnosing typhoid fever is challenging, and the scarcity of reliable burden data makes it difficult for decision-makers to understand and take action against typhoid. Typhoid symptoms—fever, diarrhea/constipation—are non-specific and common ...
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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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How do water samples help identify typhoid burden?
Typhoid, caused by the bacterium Salmonella Typhi (S. Typhi), is notoriously difficult and expensive to diagnose. The gold standard diagnostic is blood culture confirmation, which is often unavailable at community ...
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The need for typhoid conjugate vaccines in India
India is thought to have one of the highest burdens of typhoid in the world. Considering the emergence of drug resistance, climate change, and population movement, particularly during the COVID-19 ...
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A new diagnostic tool to understand typhoid burden
Typhoid remains extremely challenging to diagnose. The current gold standard diagnostic is laboratory confirmed blood culture. These tests are difficult to perform and require specialized laboratory skills and facilities. Many ...
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