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Angela Godfrey, age 26, and her daughter Sara Kambua, age 5, wait in the health clinic in Mukuru, Kenya, February 5, 2018.

Stories of Typhoid: Sara’s Typhoid Test

Posted on February 25, 2021 by Oumou Dao, Sabin Vaccine Institute

Angela Godfrey and her daughter Sara Kambua wait in the health clinic in Mukuru, Kenya. February 5, 2018. It was a Monday in February 2018 when three-year-old Sara had ...

Piecing together the typhoid surveillance puzzle

Posted on January 26, 2021 by Jessica Farley and Esau Mkisi, PATH

For decision-makers considering introduction of typhoid conjugate vaccines (TCV), data are key. National surveillance systems are the main mechanism for capturing data on typhoid cases but creating an effective typhoid ...

One step closer to untreatable typhoid

Posted on November 19, 2020 by Megan E. Carey, Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; Yogesh Hooda, Child Health Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Junaid Iqbal, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan; Abhilasha Karkey, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Kathmandu, Nepal; Ruby Jain, Civil Hospital, Manimajra, Chandigarh, India; Denise O. Garrett, Sabin Vaccine Institute, Washington, DC, USA; Duy Pham Thanh, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit-Vietnam; Neelam Taneja, Department of Medical Microbiology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India; Farah Qamar, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan; Senjuti Saha, Child Health Research Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Stephen Baker, Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

This post was originally posted on the Gavi #VaccinesWork blog. Typhoid, the infectious disease caused by the bacterium Salmonella Typhi (S. Typhi), is spread through contaminated food and water and ...

Complications and mortality of typhoid fever

Posted on November 16, 2020 by Megan Birkhold (University of Maryland School of Medicine), Christian Marchello (University of Otago), and John Crump (University of Otago)

Join the Typhoid Vaccine Acceleration Consortium, Coalition Against Typhoid and broader #TakeonTyphoid partners virtually at #ASTMH this week where experts will be sharing new data related to TCVs and discussing ...

A new study from Burkina Faso further confirms typhoid conjugate vaccines (TCV) are safe, immunogenic and can be co-administered

Posted on November 11, 2020 by Dr. Sodiomon Sirima, Groupe de Recherche Action en Santé

To read the blog in French, please click here. “We are so happy. We are so excited. We are so thankful that TCVs can be safely and effectively co-administered with ...

Stories of Typhoid: Dr. James Meiring

Posted on October 8, 2020 by Oumou Dao, Sabin Vaccine Institute

Since 2016, Dr. James Meiring (left)—a medical doctor specializing in infectious diseases and currently pursuing a PhD in typhoid epidemiology with the University of Oxford and Malawi-Liverpool Welcome Trust (MLW)—has ...

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