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Typhoid fever control in the 21st century: where are we now?

Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases, 2022
Purpose of review Momentum for achieving widespread control of typhoid fever has been growing over the past decade. Typhoid conjugate vaccines represent a potentially effective tool to reduce the burden of disease in the foreseeable future and new data ...
M. Carey, N. McCann, M. Gibani
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Associations of water, sanitation, and hygiene with typhoid fever in case–control studies: a systematic review and meta-analysis

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2022
Background Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) play a pivotal role in controlling typhoid fever, as it is primarily transmitted through oral-fecal pathways. Given our constrained resources, staying current with the most recent research is crucial. This
Chaelin Kim, Gerard R. Goucher, B. Tadesse, Woojoo Lee, K. Abbas, Jong-Hoon Kim   +5 more
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Morbidity and Mortality Associated with Typhoid Fever Among Hospitalized Patients in Hyderabad District, Pakistan, 2017-2018: Retrospective Record Review

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 2021
Background Hyderabad, Pakistan, was the first city to witness an outbreak of extensively drug resistant (XDR) typhoid fever. The outbreak strain is resistant to ampicillin, chloramphenicol, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, fluoroquinolones, and third ...
Munaza Fatima, Santosh Kumar, Mudassar Hussain, N. M. Memon, Anum Vighio, M. A. Syed, A. Chaudhry, Z. Hussain, Z. Baig, M. Baig, R. Asghar, A. Ikram, Y. Khader   +12 more
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Comparative Evaluation of Tubex Tf (Inhibition Magnetic Binding Immunoassay) for Typhoid Fever in Endemic Area [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2015
Background: Typhoid fever remains a significant health problem in endemic countries like India. Various serological tests for the diagnosis of typhoid fever are available commercially.
Ashish Khanna, Menka Khanna, Karamjit Singh Gill   +2 more
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Extensively Drug-Resistant Typhoid Fever in the United States.

Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 2021
Cases of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) typhoid fever have been reported in the United States among patients who did not travel internationally. Clinicians should consider if and where the patient traveled when selecting empiric treatment for typhoid ...
M. Hughes, Meseret G. Birhane, L. Dorough, Jared Reynolds, H. Caidi, K. Tagg, Caroline M Snyder, A. Yu, Shana M Altman, Michelle M. Boyle, Deepam Thomas, A. Robbins, HaeNa Waechter, Irina Cody, E. Mintz, B. Gutelius, G. Langley, L. F. Francois Watkins   +17 more
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Typhoid Fever in South Africa in an Endemic HIV Setting. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
Typhoid fever remains an important disease in Africa, associated with outbreaks and the emerging multidrug resistant Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi (Salmonella Typhi) haplotype, H58.
Karen H Keddy, Arvinda Sooka, Anthony M Smith, Alfred Musekiwa, Nomsa P Tau, Keith P Klugman, Frederick J Angulo, GERMS-SA   +7 more
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Treatment of enteric fever (typhoid and paratyphoid fever) with cephalosporins

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2022
Background Typhoid and paratyphoid (enteric fever) are febrile bacterial illnesses common in many low‐ and middle‐income countries. The World Health Organization (WHO) currently recommends treatment with azithromycin, ciprofloxacin, or ceftriaxone due to
R. Kuehn, N. Stoesser, D. Eyre, T. Darton, B. Basnyat, Christopher Parry   +5 more
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Environmental surveillance for Salmonella Typhi as a tool to estimate the incidence of typhoid fever in low-income populations

medRxiv, 2021
Background: The World Health Organisation recommends prioritised use of recently prequalified typhoid conjugate vaccines in countries with the highest incidence of typhoid fever.
C. Uzzell, C. Troman, J. Rigby, V. Mohan, J. John, D. Abraham, R. Srinivasan, S. Nair, J. Meschke, N. Elviss, G. Kang, N. Feasey, N. Grassly   +12 more
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A Cross-Sectional Comparative Study of the Performance of the Widal Test and the Typhidot Immunoassay for Typhoid Fever Diagnosis in the West Region of Cameroon

The Canadian journal of infectious diseases & medical microbiology = Journal canadien des maladies infectieuses et de la microbiologie medicale, 2021
Background The diagnosis of typhoid fever based on the Widal slide agglutination test remains a major hurdle in developing countries due to varied perceptions of the value of the Widal test in determining clinical decision-making. We undertook a study to
Karimo Ousenu, I. Ali, L. F. Sama, Marcel Nsangou Ndam, Thibau Florant Tchouangueu, C. Tume   +5 more
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Typhoid and paratyphoid fever: a clinical seminar.

Journal of Travel Medicine, 2021
RATIONALE FOR REVIEW Enteric fever (EF) caused by Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica serovar Typhi (Salmonella Typhi) & S. Paratyphi (Salmonella Paratyphi) remains an important cause of infectious morbidity and mortality in many low-income countries,
A. Manesh, E. Meltzer, C. Jin, Carl D Britto, D. Deodhar, S. Radha, Eli Schwartz, P. Rupali   +7 more
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