Tag: typhoid

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 ...

Children at typhoid conjugate vaccine vaccination site, Malawi

Let’s talk typhoid: Past, progress, and future projections

Posted on February 22, 2022 by Dr. Kathleen Neuzil, Dr. Emmanuel Mugisha, and Dr. Andrew Pollard

Imagine rewinding back to only five years ago. Typhoid is responsible for millions of infections and hundreds of thousands of deaths each year. It disproportionately affects a large portion of our ...

Dr. Qadri, recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award, presenting at the 2019 typhoid conference

Asia’s premier award and highest honor goes to Dr. Firdausi Qadri

Posted on November 29, 2021 by The Editors, Take on Typhoid

For more than sixty years, the Ramon Magsaysay Award, known as the “Nobel Prize for Asia,” has been the premier prize and highest honor bestowed upon Asian individuals and organizations ...

Lab worker sequences typhoid isolates in India.

Drug-resistant typhoid in India

Posted on November 24, 2021 by Silvia Argimón, Center for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance

Drug resistance occurs when a pathogen—whether bacteria, virus, or fungus—evolves to withstand the drug that is given for treatment. Drug resistance is a top health concern identified by the World ...

Alubi Black at his home recovering from typhoid

Stories of Typhoid: Alubi Black

Posted on August 4, 2021 by Take on Typhoid

Alubi Black, a 21-year-old Malawian, was dreading going to the hospital. Although Alubi had felt general body aches and had what he thought was a cold for four days, he ...

Dr. Nampota, the 2021 Rising Star recipient, in the clinic in Malawi

Strike while the iron is hot

Posted on May 31, 2021 by Leslie Jamka, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine

The Sabin Vaccine Institute will broadcast the Gold Medal Ceremony live on June 3, 2021 at 3 PM EST. Register here. The Sabin Vaccine Institute’s 2021 Rising Star recipient, Dr. ...

The value of water in the fight to take on typhoid

Posted on March 21, 2021 by Noah Duff, Sabin Vaccine Institute

What is the value of water? For those living in typhoid-endemic communities, access to clean and safe water can be the difference between a child completing her primary education or ...

The power of vaccines against drug-resistant typhoid

Posted on November 23, 2020 by Elayna Oberman, PATH

Every year in November, the global health community observes World Antibiotic Awareness Week to raise awareness about the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance and to encourage best practices among the ...

One step closer to untreatable typhoid

Posted on November 19, 2020 by Megan E. Carey, Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; Yogesh Hooda, Child Health Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Junaid Iqbal, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan; Abhilasha Karkey, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Kathmandu, Nepal; Ruby Jain, Civil Hospital, Manimajra, Chandigarh, India; Denise O. Garrett, Sabin Vaccine Institute, Washington, DC, USA; Duy Pham Thanh, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit-Vietnam; Neelam Taneja, Department of Medical Microbiology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India; Farah Qamar, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan; Senjuti Saha, Child Health Research Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Stephen Baker, Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

This post was originally posted on the Gavi #VaccinesWork blog. Typhoid, the infectious disease caused by the bacterium Salmonella Typhi (S. Typhi), is spread through contaminated food and water and ...

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