AUTHORS Priyanka Sharma, Bhavana Kumari, Sushila Dahiya, Umay Kulsum, Sambuddha Kumar, Neelam Manral, Sangeeta Pandey, Punit Kaur, Seema Sood, Bimal Kumar Das, Arti Kapil ABSTRACT Azithromycin has been in use as an alternate treatment option for enteric fever even when ...
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Analysis of isolates from Bangladesh highlights multiple ways to carry resistance genes in Salmonella Typhi
AUTHORS Nicholas Costa Barroso Lima, Arif M. Tanmoy, Emilie Westeel, Luiz Gonzaga Paula de Almeida, Alain Rajoharison, Maksuda Islam, Hubert P. Endtz, Samir K. Saha, Ana Tereza Ribeiro de Vasconcelos, and Florence Komurian-Pradel ABSTRACT Typhoid fever, caused by Salmonella Typhi, follows a fecal-oral transmission route and is a major ...
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After weeks of sweltering heat, the city finally received it’s first monsoon showers this week, signaling the onset of the season in the city. K. S. Hosalikar, Director General of ...
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Health authorities are planning to launch a mass vaccination drive against typhoid fever in Karachi after two children died due to Extensively Drug Resistant (XDR) Typhoid in Sheedi Goth area ...
Read moreThe inappropriate use of antibiotics in hospitalized dengue virus-infected children with presumed concurrent bacterial infection in teaching and private hospitals in Bandung, Indonesia
AUTHORS Riyadi Adrizain, Djatnika Setiabudi, and Alex Chairulfatah ABSTRACT Dengue virus infection (DVI) among children is a leading cause of hospitalization in endemic areas. Hospitalized patients are at risk of ...
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AUTHORS Ghulam Shabbir Laghari, Zahid Hussain, Syed Zohaib Maroof Hussain, Haresh Kumar, Syed Mohammad Mazhar Uddin, and Aatera Haq ABSTRACT Typhoid fever is a major infectious disease among the pediatric ...
Read moreMolecular mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance and phylogenetic relationships of Salmonella enterica isolates from febrile patients in Yangon, Myanmar
AUTHORS Khine Mar Oo, Tin Ohn Myat, Wah Win Htike, Ambarish Biswas, Rachel F Hannaway, David R Murdoch, John A Crump, James E Ussher ABSTRACT Enteric fever is common in southeast ...
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AUTHORS Carl D. Britto, Jacob John, Valsan P. Verghese, and Andrew J. Pollard ABSTRACT The temporal trends in the development of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) among Salmonella Typhi and Salmonella Paratyphi in India have not ...
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AUTHORS Sushila Dahiya, Rooma Malik, Priyanka Sharma, Archana Sashi, Rakesh Lodha, Sushil Kumar Kabra, Seema Sood, Bimal Kumar Das, Kamini Walia, V.C. Ohri, and Arti Kapil ABSTRACT Antimicrobial resistance is ...
Read moreNationwide surveillance of antimicrobial resistance among clinically important Gram-negative bacteria with an emphasis on carbapenems and colistin: results from the Surveillance of Multicenter Antimicrobial Resistance in Taiwan (SMART) in 2018
AUTHORS Yu-Lin Lee, Min-Chi Lu, Pei-Lan Shao, Po-Liang Lu, Yen-Hsu Chen, Shu-Hsing Cheng, Wen-Chien Ko, Chi-Ying Lin, Ting-Shu Wu, Muh-Yong Yen,Lih-Shinn Wang, Chang-Pan Lin, Wen-Sen Lee, Zhi-Yuan Shi, Yao-Shen Chen, ...
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