Experts said the vaccine was a game-changer and would reduce the “terrible toll wrought by typhoid” More than 20,000 children – aged from nine months to 16 years – in ...
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Typhoid tops the health scare chart
While the WHO has lauded Pakistan’s efforts to prevent the spread of typhiod, the global community is increasingly alarmed about the possibility of Pakistan becoming the hub for typhoid, just ...
Read moreWHO, Unicef and Pakistani experts declare new typhoid vaccine ‘very safe’
About a dozen children had reportedly fainted in a private school after receiving TCV vaccination and were taken to a nearby private health facility and sent home after given first ...
Read moreAnti-typhoid vaccination drive continues
The Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine (TCV) campaign resumed on Monday and will continue for another six days in Karachi with the aim to vaccinate the children who have been missed in ...
Read moreTyphoid vaccination drive extended till Dec 7 in Sindh
The anti-typhoid vaccine has been administered to nine million children in Sindh during 12 days of the campaign, which began on November 18 The Typhoid Conjugate Vaccination campaign has been ...
Read moreDiagnostic tools used in the evaluation of acute febrile illness in South India: a scoping review
AUTHORS Divyalakshmi Bhaskaran, Sarabjit Singh Chadha, Sanjay Sarin, Rajashree Sen, Sonia Arafah, Sabine Dittrich ABSTRACT Background: Acute febrile illness (AFI) is characterized by malaise, myalgia and a raised temperature that ...
Read moreChanging epidemiology of invasive non-typhoid Salmonella infection: a nationwide population-based registry study.
AUTHORS Mughini-Gras L, Pijnacker R, Duijster J, Heck M, Wit B, Veldman K, Franz E ABSTRACT Objectives: Non-typhoid Salmonella (NTS) may invade beyond the intestine, causing bacteraemia, sepsis, and infection ...
Read morePakistan first country to introduce new typhoid vaccine into routine immunization programme
Karachi, 15 November 2019 – Pakistan today became the first country in the world to introduce the World Health Organization (WHO)-recommended typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) into its routine immunization programme ...
Read moreAn Overview of Extensively Drug-resistant Salmonella Typhi from a Tertiary Care Hospital in Pakistan
AUTHORS Nadia Saeed , Muhammad Usman, Ejaz A. Khan ABSTRACT Introduction: Since 2016, the province of Sindh is in the limelight because of its association with the emergence and spread ...
Read moreMolecular mechanism of azithromycin resistance among typhoidal Salmonella stains in Bangladesh identified through passive pediatric surveillance
AUTHORS Yogesh Hooda, Mohammad S. I. Sajib, Hafizur Rahman, Stephen P. Luby, Joseph Bondy-Denomy, Mathuram Santosham, Jason R. Andrews, Samir K. Saha, Senjuti Saha ABSTRACT With the outbreak of extensively ...
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