Typhoid is usually treatable with antibiotics, but resistance to the drugs is increasing, leading to more severe cases and hospitalizations. Pakistan has one of the highest rates of drug-resistant typhoid- ...
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Antibiotic-Resistant Typhoid From Asia Is Spreading Worldwide
Treatment-resistant typhoid originating mostly from South Asia has springboarded across borders almost 200 times in the past three decades, according to new research that underscores the increasing global threat of ...
Read moreCDC: All travelers to Pakistan are at risk of getting XDR typhoid fever
Dozens of cases of antimicrobial resistant typhoid have been reported among people from several non-typhoid-endemic countries after traveling in Pakistan. The CDC has linked most–but not all–cases in the United ...
Read moreFight against drug-resistant typhoid aided by new genomic resource
Typhi Pathogenwatch is a new online resource created to assist in the surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in Salmonella Typhi. Genomic data is made rapidly available through the program and can be easily accessed by public ...
Read morePreschoolers, 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 moreNIH issues advisory to control, treat typhoid
The National Institute of Health (NIH) has issued an advisory to all provincial health departments to take prevention and treatment measures to control typhoid fever during summer and monsoon season ...
Read moreTyphoid fever, paratyphoid fever and the emergence of XDR typhoid fever
Typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever are clinically indistinguishable and produce the syndrome known as enteric fever The recent development of large outbreaks (thousands of cases) of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) typhoid ...
Read moreTyphoid tops the health scare chart
While the WHO has lauded Pakistan’s efforts to prevent the spread of typhiod, the global community is increasingly alarmed about the possibility of Pakistan becoming the hub for typhoid, just ...
Read moreSalmonella Study at Michigan State University: Salmonella is Evolving
A new study at Michigan State University (MSU) researched how salmonella is changing and, in particular, its resistance to antibiotics There are over two thousand strains of salmonella bacteria with ...
Read more‘It’s hard to believe, but typhoid fever is on the rise’
It’s hard to believe, but typhoid fever is on the rise. It seems it’s the latest bug to develop extensive drug resistance. As a result, cases are being identified in ...
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