AUTHORS Akshay Deshpande, Lona Dash, Jayashri Sanjay Pandya and Mayuri Zende ABSTRACT Salmonella in a breast abscess is uncommon, and Salmonella paratyphi A causing breast abscess is a rare entity. ...
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Emergence of a highly resistant typhoid strain: a new global health challenge
AUTHORS Fatima Khunsha, Shabbir Osama and Ochani Rohan Kumar ABSTRACT In order to prevent a further rise in antibiotic resistance, it is essential to raise awareness regarding overuse of antibiotics, ...
Read moreReconsidering azithromycin disc diffusion interpretive criteria for Salmonellae in view of azithromycin MIC creep among typhoidal and nontyphoidal salmonella
AUTHORS Sadia Khan, Parvathy Kurup, Vivek Vinod, Raja Biswas, Gopala Krishna Pillai, and Anil Kumar ABSTRACT Enteric fever continues to be an important public health challenge for the developing world. With ...
Read moreMyositis associated with Salmonella paratyphi A bacteremia appears to be common
AUTHORS Adline Harris, Stalin Viswanathan, and Rajeswari Aghoram BACKGROUND Fever and severe myalgia in a tropical country like India bring to mind leptospirosis, rickettsioses, dengue, and other viral fevers. Enteric fever ...
Read moreExtensively drug-resistant typhoid fever in Pakistan
AUTHORS Muhammad Kamran Rasheed, Syed Shahzad Hasan, Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar, Syed Imran Ahmed ABSTRACT We read the Article by Farah Qamar and colleagues about the outbreak of ceftriaxone-resistant Salmonella enterica serotype ...
Read moreEpidemiology of Typhoid and Paratyphoid: Implications for Vaccine Policy
AUTHORS Saha S, Islam MS, Sajib MSI, Saha S, Uddin MJ, Hooda Y, Hasan M, Amin MR, Hanif M, Shahidullah M, Islam M, Luby SP, Andrews JR, Saha SK BACKGROUND ...
Read moreAssessing the Impact of a Vi-polysaccharide Conjugate Vaccine in Preventing Typhoid Infections Among Nepalese Children: A Protocol for a Phase III, Randomized Control Trial
AUTHORS Katherine Theiss-Nyland, Mila Shakya, Rachel Colin-Jones, Merryn Voysey, Nicola Smith, Abhilasha Karkey, Sabina Dongol, Dikshya Pant, Yama G Farooq, Kathleen M Neuzil, Shrijana Shrestha, Buddha Basnyat, Andrew J Pollard BACKGROUND Enteric fever is estimated to ...
Read moreIncidence of Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers Among Adolescents and Adults in Yangon, Myanmar
AUTHORS Oo WT, Myat TO, Htike WW, Ussher JE, Murdoch DR, Lwin KT, Oo MZ, Maze MJ, Win HH, Crump JA BACKGROUND Accurate estimates of typhoid disease burden are needed ...
Read moreAssessing the Impact of a Vi-polysaccharide Conjugate Vaccine in Preventing Typhoid Infection Among Bangladeshi Children: A Protocol for a Phase IIIb Trial
AUTHORS Theiss-Nyland K, Qadri F, Colin-Jones R, Zaman K, Khanam F, Liu X, Voysey M, Khan A, Hasan N, Ashher F, Farooq YG, Pollard AJ, Clemens JD BACKGROUND Typhoid fever ...
Read moreLogistics of Implementing a Large-scale Typhoid Vaccine Trial in Kathmandu, Nepal
AUTHORS Colin-Jones R, Shakya M, Voysey M, Theiss-Nyland K, Smith N, Pant D, Liu X, Tonks S, Mazur O, Farooq YG, Kelly S, Adhikari A, Dongol S, Karkey A, Shrestha ...
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