Providing adequate safe water and improving sanitation is key to ending recurrent outbreaks of diarrhoeal diseases that include typhoid, cholera and common diarrhoea in Harare’s western suburbs Disease and epidemiology ...
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13 suspected typhoid cases hit Glen View
Typhoid is still endemic in Harare’s Glen View high-density suburb, with another 13 suspected new cases recorded in recent weeks by the City Health Department Typhoid is not new to ...
Read moreOtago researchers partner in vaccine project to tackle major killer of African children
A team of University of Otago researchers is part of a major new international vaccine research project to help tackle devastating Salmonella bloodstream infections which are killing thousands of people ...
Read moreExternal Quality Assessment of Bacterial Identification and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing in African National Public Health Laboratories, 2011-2016.
AUTHORS Perovic O, Yahaya AA, Viljoen C, Ndihokubwayo JB, Smith M, Coulibaly SO, De Gouveia L, Oxenford CJ, Cognat S, Ismail H, Frean J ABSTRACT Background: In 2002, the World ...
Read moreTyphoidal Salmonella human challenge studies: ethical and practical challenges and considerations for low-resource settings
AUTHORS Meriel Raymond, Malick M. Gibani, Nicholas P. J. Day, Phaik Yeong Cheah ABSTRACT Typhoidal Salmonella is a major global problem affecting more than 12 million people annually. Controlled human ...
Read moreTyphoid fever among febrile Nigerian patients: Prevalence, diagnostic performance of the Widal test and antibiotic multi-drug resistance
AUTHORS Martin E Ohanu, Michael O Iroezindu, Uzoamaka Maduakor, Obinna D Onodugo, Harish C Gugnani ABSTRACT Background: Over-dependence on clinical presentation and/or the Widal agglutination test for the diagnosis of typhoid fever ...
Read morePrevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of Salmonella and Shigella isolates among children aged below five years with diarrhea attending Robe General Hospital and Goba Referral Hospital, South East Ethiopia
AUTHORS Addisu Assefa, Mengistu Girma ABSTRACT Background: Diarrheal diseases are responsible for high level of morbidity and mortality, particularly in children below 5 years. Salmonella and Shigella spp. are pathogenic ...
Read moreLiberia Begins Preparation for Typhoid Vaccine
Monrovia – Liberia has begun massively preparing to launch the typhoid conjugate Vaccine come early next year, according to information from the Ministry of Health According to the Health Ministry’s ...
Read moreDeterminants of linear growth faltering among children with moderate-to-severe diarrhea in the Global Enteric Multicenter Study
AUTHORS Brander RL, Pavlinac PB, Walson JL, John-Stewart GC, Weaver MR, Faruque ASG, Zaidi AKM, Sur D, Sow SO, Hossain MJ, Alonso PL, Breiman RF, Nasrin D, Nataro JP, Levine ...
Read moreSerotype distribution and antimicrobial resistance of human Salmonella enterica in Bangui, Central African Republic, from 2004 to 2013
AUTHORS Sebastien Breurec , Yann Reynaud, Thierry Frank, Alain Farra, Geoffroy Costilhes, François-Xavier Weill, Simon Le Hello ABSTRACT Background: Limited epidemiological and antimicrobial resistance data are available on Salmonella enterica ...
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