A new study conducted by IVI in collaboration with SK bioscience shows that single-dose and two-dose regimens of Vi-DT typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) are safe and immunogenic in children 6-23 ...
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How to Improve on a Good Year for Global Health
The discovery of new viruses, vaccines, and treatments in 2019 was the result of investments in global surveillance, cross-sector partnerships, and scientific advances The Typhoid Vaccine Acceleration Consortium completed a ...
Read moreDo studies underestimate the prevalence of typhoid?
Blood culture surveillance programs are critical for estimating the prevalence of typhoid and paratyphoid fevers, but cases can be missed when patients don’t seek medical care, or seek medical care ...
Read moreTyphoid vaccine Phase 3 trial in Nepal
In Nepal, the typhoid conjugate vaccine has proven to be very effective in protecting against typhoid fever The typhoid antibody titers more than quadrupled in the participants that received the ...
Read moreDaewoong launches oral typhoid fever vaccine
Daewoong Pharmaceutical said that it has launched Vivotif, an oral typhoid fever vaccine, in the local market Vivotif is the only typhoid fever vaccine in Korea that received approval by ...
Read moreOtago researchers partner in vaccine project to tackle major killer of African children
A team of University of Otago researchers is part of a major new international vaccine research project to help tackle devastating Salmonella bloodstream infections which are killing thousands of people ...
Read moreNew typhoid fever vaccine protects young children
The test in Nepal “provides the first evidence of the level of impact and the potential for improving the health of children in some of these very vulnerable populations around ...
Read moreTyphoid vaccine ‘works fantastically well’
Experts said the vaccine was a game-changer and would reduce the “terrible toll wrought by typhoid” More than 20,000 children – aged from nine months to 16 years – in ...
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 moreResearchers tackle biofilm to make salmonella infection less aggressive
Biology researchers at Haifa’s Technion-Israel Institute of Technology say they may have found a way to make salmonella bacterial infections less aggressive by inhibiting the formation of biofilm In their ...
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