The Government of India has registered a patent for the invention of a technology to screen typhoid The invention provides a PCR-based diagnostic assay for detection of Typhoid-causing bacteria with ...
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Preschoolers, caregivers highly vulnerable to XDR typhoid
Preschoolers aged 3-5 are highly vulnerable to typhoid fever, including drug-resistant typhoid In an advisory, the NIH, the country’s leading medical research centre, said typhoid fever was endemic in the ...
Read moreTyphoid fever in Nigeria not too common as believed — Commissioner
The Commissioner for Health in Anambra, Dr Vincent Okpala, says Typhoid fever in Nigeria is not as common as it has been made to be Okpala told the News Agency ...
Read moreTaiwan records first case of imported XDR typhoid fever
Taiwan reported its first imported case of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) typhoid fever, diagnosed in a patient who recently returned from a visit to Pakistan The patient is now in stable ...
Read moreFirst case of extensively drug-resistant typhoid reported in Australia
Australia’s first case of extensively drug-resistant typhoid has been confirmed in a 20-month-old girl, who was taken to hospital suffering with high fever and vomiting Dr Philip Britton from the ...
Read more‘Typhoid gaining antibiotic resistance’
In the state, between August 4 and September 1, there have been 4,478 lab-confirmed typhoid fever cases These cases have been rising steadily from 749 between July 29 and August ...
Read morePakistan drug resistant typhoid outbreak tops 5,000: WHO
Typhoid outbreak in Pakistan has grown to over 5,2000 XDR cases in Sindh province 70% of cases in Karachi, with remaining 30% around the district in Hyderabad XDR strain of Typhi ...
Read moreMystery fever in Balapur down to typhoid, dengue
Nearly a fortnight after several cases of a mystery fever were reported from 16 settlements, largely housing Rohingya refugees, in Balapur area of the city, cases of typhoid, dengue and ...
Read moreMisdiagnosis: Trouble as almost everybody ‘tests positive to typhoid, malaria’
Misdiagnosis of typhoid and malaria common in malaria due to reliance on outdated Widal test and lack of qualified laboratory personnel The new typhoid vaccine could be a game-changer in ...
Read moreMetabolic markers accurately diagnose typhoid fever
Researchers have identified a metabolite ‘signature’ that can accurately distinguish typhoid from other fever-inducing tropical diseases using patient blood samples
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