Tag: typhoid

TCV is highly immunogenic in Burkinabe children 30-35 months post-vaccination

Posted on August 30, 2023 by Alphonse Ouedraogo, Groupe de Recherche Action en Santé (GRAS); Amidou Diarra, Groupe de Recherche Action en Santé (GRAS); Issa Nébié, Groupe de Recherche Action en Santé (GRAS); Nouhoun Barry, Groupe de Recherche Action en Santé (GRAS), and Sodiomon Sirima, Groupe de Recherche Action en Santé (GRAS)

To read this blog in French, please click here. The World Health Organization has prioritized co-administration of TCV with other childhood vaccines including measles and polio. Researchers from the Groupe ...

Ten years of surveillance finds a variable but persistently high typhoid burden in Kibera, Kenya

Posted on June 14, 2023 by Eric Ng’eno, Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)

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 ...

What can intestinal perforations tell us about typhoid disease burden?

Posted on June 2, 2023 by Leah Sukri, University of Maryland, Baltimore, United States; Octavie Lunguya Metlia, Cliniques Universitaires de Kinshasa and Institut National de Reherche Biomédicale, Democratic Republic of Congo; Ellis Owusu-Dabo, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana; Yaw Adu-Sarkodie, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana; Raphaël Rakotozandrindrainy, University of Antananarivo, Madagascar; Iruka N. Okeke, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, United Kingdom; Olakayode Olaolu Ogundoyin, University of Ibadan, Nigeria; Florian Marks, International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, Republic of Korea

This paper is part of Charting the Course to Meet the Challenges Ahead: Research and Developments on Typhoid and Other Invasive Salmonelloses. Typhoid remains a real threat in low- and ...