AUTHORS Grace D Appiah, Alexandria Chung, Adwoa D Bentsi-Enchill, Sunkyung Kim, John A Crump, Vittal Mogasale, Rachael Pellegrino, Rachel B Slayton, Eric D Mintz ABSTRACT Typhoid fever remains an important public health problem in low- and middle-income countries, ...
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Evaluation of a Rapid Point-of-Care Multiplex Immunochromatographic Assay for the Diagnosis of Enteric Fever
AUTHORS Shailendra Kumar, Ariana Nodoushani, Farhana Khanam, Alyssa T DeCruz, Paul Lambotte, Robert Scott, Isaac I Bogoch, Krista Vaidya, Stephen B Calderwood, Taufiqur R Bhuiyan, Javan Esfandiari, Edward T Ryan, Firdausi Qadri, Jason R Andrews, Richelle C Charles ABSTRACT There is a critical need ...
Read moreLaparoscopic Management of Gall Bladder Perforation Secondary to Typhoid-Induced Acalculous Cholecystitis: A Rare Entity
AUTHORS Anupam Goel, Vivek Bindal, Sudhir Kalhan, Parveen Bhatia, Mukund Khetan, Suviraj John ABSTRACT Gall bladder perforation as a sequel of typhoid-induced acalculous cholecystitis is a rare clinical encounter, reported sparsely in literature. Here, we ...
Read moreMolecular and Epidemiologic Analysis of Diarrheal Pathogens in Children With Acute Gastroenteritis in Bangladesh During 2014-2019
AUTHORS Nadim Sharif, Nasir Uddin Nobel, Najmuj Sakib, Syeda Moriam Liza, Shafia Tasnim Khan, Baki Billah, Anowar Khasru Parvez, Aynul Haque, Ali Azam Talukder, Shuvra Kanti Dey ABSTRACT Background: Diarrheal disease is one of the leading causes of childhood ...
Read moreA prospective study of bloodstream infections among febrile adolescents and adults attending Yangon General Hospital, Yangon, Myanmar
AUTHORS Tin Ohn Myat, Khine Mar Oo, Hla Kye Mone, Wah Win Htike, Ambarish Biswas, Rachel F. Hannaway, David R. Murdoch, James E. Ussher, John A. Crump ABSTRACT Data on ...
Read moreGenomic Profiling of Antimicrobial Resistance Genes in Clinical Isolates of Salmonella Typhi From Patients Infected With Typhoid Fever in India
AUTHORS Amit Katiyar, Priyanka Sharma, Sushila Dahiya, Harpreet Singh, Arti Kapil, Punit Kaur ABSTRACT The development of multidrug resistance in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi currently forms a major roadblock for the treatment of enteric ...
Read moreDifferential Antimicrobial Susceptibility Profiles Between Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Non-Typhoidal Salmonella Infections in Vietnamese Children
AUTHORS Andrea Parisi, Tu Le Thi Phuong, Alison E Mather, Thibaut Jombart, Ha Thanh Tuyen, Nguyen Phu Huong Lan, Nguyen Hoang Thu Trang , Juan Carrique-Mas, James I Campbell, Kathryn Glass, Martyn D Kirk, Stephen Baker ABSTRACT ...
Read moreUpdate on Extensively Drug-Resistant Salmonella Serotype Typhi Infections Among Travelers to or From Pakistan and Report of Ceftriaxone-Resistant Salmonella Serotype Typhi Infections Among Travelers to Iraq – United States, 2018-2019
AUTHORS Louise K François Watkins, Alison Winstead, Grace D Appiah, Cindy R Friedman, Felicita Medalla, Michael J Hughes, Meseret G Birhane, Zachary D Schneider, Perrine Marcenac, Samir S Hanna, Gauri Godbole, Kelly A Walblay, Ashley E Wiggington, Molly Leeper, Elizabeth H Meservey, Kaitlin A Tagg, Jessica ...
Read moreStudy reveals foodborne illness burden in Taiwan
One in six Taiwanese people suffered from foodborne illness annually during a four year period studied by researchers Among just more than half of foodborne illnesses cases with identifiable causal ...
Read moreDesigning a typhoid environmental surveillance study: A simulation model for optimum sampling site allocation
AUTHORS Yuke Wang, Christine L. Moe, Shanta Dutta, Ashutosh Wadhwa, Suman Kanungo, Wolfgang Mairinger, Yichuan Zhao, Yi Jiang, Peter FM.Teunis ABSTRACT Environmental surveillance can be used for monitoring enteric disease ...
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