Knowledge Exchange Newsletter, April 2016

Outbreak Watch

• 14 cases of typhoid fever were reported in Tailevu province, Fiji, at the end of March. More cases were reported throughout Fiji in April; the increase in typhoid was linked to the damage caused by tropical cyclone Winston, which struck the country in late February.
• Typhoid claimed 6 lives in Masaka district, Uganda, in early April.
• ​18 cases of typhoid fever were confirmed in Mchinji district, Malawi, in mid-April, prompting local hospitals to hold educational meetings on hygiene practices.

​Publications

Diagnostics and Treatments

• Optimization of Salmonella Typhi biofilm assay on polypropylene microtiter plates using response surface methodology – Biofouling: The Journal of Bioadhesion and Biofilm Research
• Comparison of the Performance of the TPTest, Tubex, Tyhpidot and Widal Immunodiagnostic Assays and Blood Cultures in Detecting Patients with Typhoid Fever in Bangladesh, Including Using a Bayesian Latent Class Modeling Approach – PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Epidemiology and Surveillance

• Trends of reported foodborne diseases at the Ridge Hospital, Accra, Ghana: a retrospective review of routine data from 2009-2013 – BMC Infectious Diseases
• Enteric Fever in a Multicultural Canadian Tertiary Care Pediatric Setting: A 28-Year Review – Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society
• Changing Patterns of Disease and Mortality at the Children’s Hospital, Accra: Are Infections Rising? – PLoS One
• The Aetiologies and Impact of Fever in Pregnant Inpatients in Vientiane, Laos – PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
• The Burden of Typhoid and Paratyphoid in India: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis – PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
• Changing Patterns in Enteric Fever Incidence and Increasing Antibiotic Resistance of Enteric Fever Isolates in the United States, 2008-2012 – Clinical Infectious Diseases