Elizabeth Klemm, a Wellcome researcher, tells the story behind identifying an extensively resistant typhoid strain
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Pakistan Is Racing to Combat the World’s First Extensively Drug-Resistant Typhoid Outbreak
Infectious disease experts say Pakistan is in the grip of the world’s first outbreak of XDR typhoid, and they suspect the country’s abysmal sewage and water systems are the root ...
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Drug-resistant superbug to blame for deadly typhoid outbreak in Pakistan
A major outbreak of typhoid fever in Pakistan may have been caused by a highly drug-resistant superbug, scientists have warned
Read moreStudy finds new superbug typhoid strain behind Pakistan outbreak
An outbreak of typhoid fever in Pakistan is being caused by an extensively drug resistant “superbug” strain, a sign that treatment options for the bacterial disease are running out, researchers ...
Read moreTyphoid outbreak: Genetic cause of extensive drug-resistance found
The genetic cause behind a strain of typhoid’s resistance to five classes of antibiotics has been uncovered by scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and their collaborators The typhoid strain ...
Read moreAfter Hyderabad, drug-resistant typhoid emerges in Karachi
Drug-resistant typhoid in children has emerged in Karachi where cases of patients not responding to antibiotics commonly used to treat the enteric fever have been reported This follows on an ...
Read moreEmergency typhoid vaccine drive underway in Hyderabad
The Sindh Health Department has launched an emergency vaccination campaign in two regions of Hyderabad district to protect children from an outbreak of drug-resistant typhoid Around 250,000 children in Latifabad ...
Read moreHyderabad facing world’s first outbreak of drug-resistant typhoid: AKU
Dozens of children have died in Hyderabad as a result of what has been termed the “world’s first outbreak of drug-resistant typhoid” The Aga Khan University (AKU) has blamed contaminated ...
Read moreScientist warns of drug resistant typhoid strain
Professor Sam Kariuki of the Kenya Medical Research Institute warned that H58, a deadly strain of typhoid, is spreading in East Africa H58 has become resistant to more than 60 ...
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