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In vivo anti‐Salmonella properties of aqueous extract of prickly pear (Opuntia ficus indica) cladode, hepatological and toxicological evaluation

Food Science &Nutrition, Volume 12, Issue 7, Page 4761-4771, July 2024.
This study was aimed to elucidate in vivo anti‐salmonella properties of aqueous extract of prickly pear (Opuntia ficus indica) cladode. The bacterial load of feces was calculated a day before the infection and was continually calculated during 4 days after the infection. Histology of the liver continued to play an important role in modern hepatological
Khansa Iftikhar, Farzana Siddique, Kashif Ameer, Muhammad Arshad, Sadia Kharal, Isam A. Mohamed Ahmed, Shakila Khalid   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Clinical and microbiological profile of enteric fever among pediatric patients in a tertiary care center in South India: A cross-sectional study

Journal of Clinical Sciences, 2020
Introduction: Enteric fever, which is endemic in India, is a significant cause for morbidity, particularly among young children. Enteric fever is associated with high fever, abdominal pain, diarrhea, and splenomegaly. Recently, there have been increasing
A Malini, C Barathy, N S Madhusudan, C Johnson   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Estimating the Malaria Attributable Fever Fraction Accounting for Parasites Being Killed by Fever and Measurement Error [PDF]

arXiv, 2016
Malaria is a parasitic disease that is a major health problem in many tropical regions. The most characteristic symptom of malaria is fever. The fraction of fevers that are attributable to malaria, the malaria attributable fever fraction (MAFF), is an important public health measure for assessing the effect of malaria control programs and other ...
arxiv  

Flagella‐mediated cytosolic motility of Salmonella enterica Paratyphi A aids in evasion of xenophagy but does not impact egress from host cells

Molecular Microbiology, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 413-430, March 2024.
Salmonella enterica serovar Paratyphi A are motile in host cell cytosol via flagella. Trigger invasion leads to instability of the Salmonella‐containing vacuole and release into host cell cytosol, followed by flagella‐mediated motility. Cytosolic motile S.
Felix Scharte, Rico Franzkoch, Michael Hensel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fluoroquinolone-resistant Salmonella typhi infection: a report of two cases in South Africa

Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2018
Typhoid and paratyphoid fever are acute, life-threatening febrile illnesses caused by systemic infection with the bacterium Salmonella enterica. Nineteen cases were reported in South Africa in 2016. We report on two cases of bacteraemic invasive S. typhi
N. Schellack, E. Bronkhorst, C. Maluleka, L. Hunt, P. Srinivas, W. Grootboom, D. Goff, P. Naicker, T. Modau, O. Babarinde   +9 more
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Current trends in the epidemiology and management of enteric fever in Africa: A literature review

Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine, 2020
Enteric fever remains a tropical disease of public health significance in Africa, due to its high endemicity and transmission rates, more in sub-Saharan Africa with 7.2 million cases of typhoid fever annually and incidence rate of 762 per 100 000 person ...
Oluwaseyitan A Adesegun, Oluwafunmilola O Adeyemi, Osaze Ehioghae, David F Rabor, Tolulope O Binuyo, Bisola A Alafin, Onyedikachi B Nnagha, Akolade O Idowu, Ayokunle Osonuga   +8 more
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The Fact Extraction and VERification (FEVER) Shared Task [PDF]

arXiv, 2018
We present the results of the first Fact Extraction and VERification (FEVER) Shared Task. The task challenged participants to classify whether human-written factoid claims could be Supported or Refuted using evidence retrieved from Wikipedia. We received entries from 23 competing teams, 19 of which scored higher than the previously published baseline ...
arxiv  

The European Union summary report on antimicrobial resistance in zoonotic and indicator bacteria from humans, animals and food in 2021–2022

EFSA Journal, Volume 22, Issue 2, February 2024.
Abstract This report by the European Food Safety Authority and the European Centre for Disease prevention and Control, provides an overview of the main findings of the 2021–2022 harmonised Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) monitoring in Salmonella spp., Campylobacter jejuni and C.
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of a typhoid/paratyphoid diagnostic assay (TPTest) detecting anti-Salmonella IgA in secretions of peripheral blood lymphocytes in patients in Dhaka, Bangladesh. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2013
Rapid and reliable diagnostic assays for enteric (typhoid and paratyphoid) fever are urgently needed. We report the characterization of novel approach utilizing lymphocyte secretions, for diagnosing patients with enteric fever by the TPTest procedure ...
Farhana Khanam, Alaullah Sheikh, Md Abu Sayeed, Md Saruar Bhuiyan, Feroza Kaneez Choudhury, Umme Salma, Shahnaz Pervin, Tania Sultana, Dilruba Ahmed, Doli Goswami, Md Lokman Hossain, K Z Mamun, Richelle C Charles, W Abdullah Brooks, Stephen B Calderwood, Alejandro Cravioto, Edward T Ryan, Firdausi Qadri   +17 more
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Epidemiology and Performances of Typhidot Immunoassay and Widal Slide Agglutination in the Diagnosis of Typhoid Fever in Febrile Patients in Bafoussam City, Cameroon: A Cross‐Sectional Comparative Study

Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, Volume 2024, Issue 1, 2024.
Background. Enteric fever is a great public health problem associated with significant illness and death in many endemic countries, and its clinical diagnosis is still daunting. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and risk factors of S.
Aurelie Dahlia Yemeli Piankeu, Siméon Pierre Chegaing Fodouop, Michel Noubom, Emmanuel Boris Gomseu Djoumsie, Georges Ful Kuh, Donatien Gatsing, Abdelaziz Ed-Dra   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source