Typhoid conjugate vaccines (TCVs) can significantly reduce typhoid incidence in endemic communities. For policymakers in countries considering TCV introduction, accurate data are needed to inform the decision-making process. New data ...
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Tag: surveillance
Uncovering the true typhoid burden in Bangladesh, Malawi, and Nepal
Typhoid causes more than 9 million cases and more than 110,000 deaths each year. Most of this burden is concentrated in areas of South and Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa ...
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An app for Typhi genomes
Note: This blog originally appeared on the Nature Portfolio Microbiology Community. Typhoid fever is a serious enteric disease spread through food and water contaminated with Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi (S. Typhi). In 2017, ...
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Piecing together the typhoid surveillance puzzle
For decision-makers considering introduction of typhoid conjugate vaccines (TCV), data are key. National surveillance systems are the main mechanism for capturing data on typhoid cases but creating an effective typhoid ...
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Beyond Morbidity and Mortality, Understanding the Burden of Enteric Fever in South Asia: New Results from Phase II of the Surveillance for Enteric Fever in Asia Project (SEAP)
Disease surveillance has long served as the foundation of public health, generating data to help guide policies and programs to effectively control and prevent a multitude of diseases. However, for ...
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How 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 moreCaT Awarded Funding to Advance Surveillance of Typhoid and Paratyphoid
WASHINGTON, D.C. — December 16, 2014 — The Sabin Vaccine Institute, through the Coalition against Typhoid (CaT) Secretariat, announced today that it has received an award of approximately US $5 ...
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