This week I am attending the Vaccines for Enteric Diseases conference, the biannual meeting of researchers working on diarrheal disease, cholera, and typhoid. It is always fascinating and inspiring to ...
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Author: Eileen Quinn, PATH
Knowledge Exchange Newsletter, September 2017
A Note from the CaT Director: CaT joins forces with TyVAC to ‘Take on Typhoid’ Dear Coalition Member, The Coalition against Typhoid (CaT) is joining forces with the Typhoid Vaccine Acceleration Consortium (TyVAC) to take ...
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No better time to take on typhoid
For many people, the summer is a time to slow down a bit, rest and relax, and perhaps take a long-awaited vacation. We often hear of “summer reading lists” and ...
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New Study Sheds Light on Typhoid Burden in Rural Nepal
In South Asia, where the burden of enteric fever is thought to be highest, most typhoid studies have focused on urban areas. As a result, researchers have been unsure how ...
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The Lancet: Typhoid vaccine proves highly immunogenic, and could halve infection rate
Press Release from The Lancet: The Vi-conjugate typhoid vaccine, the only typhoid vaccine that can be used in infants, represents a new tool to help control typhoid A new typhoid vaccine has ...
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Talk about Typhoid
Communicate the impact of typhoid on the health and development of children and families around the world and the value of an integrated package of solutions for typhoid control and ...
Read moreKnowledge Exchange Newsletter, August 2017
From the Blog Investigators at the Aga Khan University in Pakistan are actively investigating a large outbreak oftyphoid fever bacteria that are resistant to ceftriaxone, an antibiotic commonly used by physicians ...
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Making strides with polysaccharides: life-saving conjugate vaccines, explained
Ever heard of a conjugate vaccine? You may have heard of one that prevents a key cause of pneumonia (the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, PCV), or maybe one that stops a ...
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Aga Khan University Team Investigates Outbreak Of Antibiotic Resistant Typhoid Fever
Investigators from the Aga Khan University (AKU) are actively investigating a large outbreak of typhoid fever bacteria that are resistant to ceftriaxone, an antibiotic commonly used by physicians to treat ...
Read moreKnowledge Exchange Newsletter, July 2017
Stories of Typhoid: Meet Samina Samina was only six years old when she fell ill with antibiotic-resistant typhoid during an ongoing outbreak in Pakistan. Her father, Ejaz Somro, tells Samina’s tragic ...
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