The American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene annual meeting will take place in New Orleans, Louisiana, from October 28 – November 1, 2018. Join us at the events below to #TakeOnTyphoid.
Symposium: Integration for Impact: Preventing typhoid through policy, vaccines, and WASH
Monday, October 29
1:45pm – 3:30pm
Marriott – La Galerie 1/2 (2nd Floor)
- Presenters will share the impact of new and integrated prevention and control methods, including the new typhoid conjugate vaccine, on addressing typhoid alongside the policy decisions to make these tools accessible to all that need them
Reception: Racing against Resistance: Milestones in the fight to take on typhoid
Tuesday, October 30
4:00 – 6:00pm
Sheraton – Cornet/Orpheus
- Join us for snacks, cocktails and brief remarks from experts in the field
Other typhoid research on the schedule:
October 29, 2018
12:00 – 1:45pm
Session 22: Poster Session A, including the following posters:
- Safety and Immunogenicity of Vi-DT Conjugate Vaccine compared to Vi-Polysaccharide (Typhim Vi®, Sanofi Pasteur) Typhoid Vaccine in Healthy Filipino Adults and Children
- A Randomized, Observer-Blinded, Phase I study to Assess the Detection of S.t yphi and S. paratyphi A In Drinking Water at Hyderabad, Pakistan: An Outbreak Area Of Ceftriaxone Resistant Typhoid Fever
October 30, 2018
12:00 – 1:45pm
Session 77: Poster Session B, including the following posters:
- Beyond drinking water for control of typhoid fever: Novel risk factors from a case-control analysis in Blantyre, Malawi
- Unexpected low prevalence of typhoid among acute febrile illness cases in India
- Frequency & Associated Factors of Typhoid Carrier on Duodenal Fluid Culture in a Tertiary Care Hospital, Karachi
1:45pm – 3:30pm
Session 86: Bacteriology: Salmonella/Typhoid/Plague, including the following presentations:
- Spatial and genomic data to identify transmission routes of typhoid fever in Blantyre, Malawi
- Cost-effectiveness of typhoid conjugate vaccine strategies in 54 Gavi-eligible countries
- Adverse Events Following Immunization with Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine: Mass Immunization against Ceftriaxone Resistance Typhoid Fever in Hyderabad, Pakistan
1:45pm – 3:30pm
Session 88: Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Environmental Health, including the following presentation:
- Adaptive Sites Allocation for Typhoid Environmental Surveillance in Two Indian Cities
October 31, 2018
12:00 – 1:45pm
Session 133: Poster Session C, including the following posters:
- Incidence of Enteric Fever in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan: Results of the Surveillance for Enteric Fever in Asia Project
- Retrospective Cohort Study of Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever at Referral Center for Travel and Tropical Diseases in Japan
- SaniPath-Typhoid and Environmental Surveillance for Typhoid: A Prototype for Large Scale Deployment in Cities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
4:00 – 5:45pm
Session 155: The Nexus of Poop and Public Health: Harnessing the Human Gut Microbiome for Global Health, including the following presentation:
- Confronting typhoid and antimicrobial resistance: Genomics, metagenomics and the microbiome
