AUTHORS Dipesh Tamrakar, Krista Vaidya, Alexander T Yu, Kristen Aiemjoy, Shiva Ram Naga, Yanjia Cao, Caryn Bern, Rajeev Shrestha, Biraj M Karmacharya, Sailesh Pradhan, Farah Naz Qamar, Samir Saha, Kashmira ...
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Hospitalization of Pediatric Enteric Fever Cases, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2017–2019: Incidence and Risk Factors
AUTHORS Shampa Saha, K M Ishtiaque Sayeed, Senjuti Saha, Md Shafiqul Islam, Afiour Rahaman, Maksuda Islam, Hafizur Rahman, Raktim Das, Md Mahmudul Hasan, Mohammad Jamal Uddin, Arif Mohammad Tanmoy, A ...
Read moreIntroducing Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine in South Asia: Lessons From the Surveillance for Enteric Fever in Asia Project
AUTHORS Alice S Carter, Stephen P Luby, Denise O Garrett ABSTRACT Enteric fever remains a public health concern in communities lacking sanitation infrastructure to separate sewage from drinking water. To ...
Read moreComplications and mortality of typhoid fever: a global systematic review and meta-analysis: Typhoid complications and mortality
AUTHORS Christian S Marchello, Megan Birkhold, John A Crump ABSTRACT Objectives: Updated estimates of the prevalence of complications and case fatality ratio (CFR) among typhoid fever patients are needed to understand disease ...
Read moreNon-typhoidal Salmonella infections among children in a tertiary hospital in Ningbo, Zhejiang, China, 2012-2019
AUTHORS Yefang Ke, Wenbo Lu, Wenyuan Liu, Pan Zhu, Qunying Chen, Zhe Zhu ABSTRACT Background: Non-typhoidal Salmonella (NTS), a common cause of diarrheal enterocolitis, may also cause severe invasive diseases. Limited information on NTS infections ...
Read morePopulation pharmacokinetics of ciprofloxacin in Pakistani patients suffering from enteric fever
AUTHORS Rabia Saleem, Humaira Majeed Khan, Muhammad Usman, Muhammad Imran Khokhar, Huma Rasheed, Mateen Abbas, Rizwan Rasul Khan, Madiha Zaman, Zunair Maqsood ABSTRACT Background: Ciprofloxacin, a potent carboxy-fluoroquinolone is proved to be effective against some resistant strains of ...
Read moreEtiology, clinical presentation, and outcome of children with fulminant hepatic failure: Experience from a tertiary center in Pakistan
AUTHORS Sidra Talat, Sabeen Abid Khan, Nismat Javed, Munir Iqbal Malik ABSTRACT Objectives: To determine etiologies, clinical presentations and outcomes of children with fulminant hepatic failure in the first liver transplant center of ...
Read more50 Years Ago in The Journal of Pediatrics: Drug Sensitivity to Salmonella typhi: Coming Full Circle
AUTHORS Pinky Meena, Piyush Gupta ABSTRACT In 1970, Chawla et al were concerned about the “rampant use” of chloramphenicol for treatment of typhoid fever owing to its serious toxic effects. They studied ...
Read moreGenomic serotyping, clinical manifestations, and antimicrobial resistance of non-typhoidal Salmonella gastroenteritis in hospitalized children in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
AUTHORS Vu Thuy Duong, Hao Chung The, Tran Do Hoang Nhu, Ha Thanh Tuyen, James I Campbell, Pham Van Minh, Hoang Le Phuc, Tran Thi Hong Chau, Nguyen Minh Ngoc, Lu Lan Vi, Alison E Mather, Stephen Baker ABSTRACT Nontyphoidal Salmonella ...
Read morePreschoolers, caregivers highly vulnerable to XDR typhoid
Preschoolers aged 3-5 are highly vulnerable to typhoid fever, including drug-resistant typhoid In an advisory, the NIH, the country’s leading medical research centre, said typhoid fever was endemic in the ...
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