Nearly one year ago, a case of ceftriazone-resistant typhoid was reported at Aga Khan University Hospital in Hyderabad, Pakistan. Within the week, there were two more cases reported from the ...
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Aga Khan University Team Investigates Outbreak Of Antibiotic Resistant Typhoid Fever
Investigators from the Aga Khan University (AKU) are actively investigating a large outbreak of typhoid fever bacteria that are resistant to ceftriaxone, an antibiotic commonly used by physicians to treat ...
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Stories of Typhoid: Samina
This is Samina’s story as told by her father, Ejaz Somro, to Attaullah Baig and Sultan Karim of Aga Khan University Hospital. Samina recently became ill with ceftriaxone-resistant typhoid during ...
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Stories of Typhoid: Gul Rahim
This is Gul Rahim’s story of typhoid, as told to Attaullah Baig of Aga Khan University Hospital on January 7, 2017, and translated into English. The interview was conducted in ...
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Stories of Typhoid: Asim
Meet Asim. In his low-income urban neighborhood in Pakistan, it can seem as if the one thing more widespread than typhoid is misinformation about typhoid. Crucial information on the prevention ...
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The Coalition against Typhoid Secretariat Hosts Typhoid Symposium
On Tuesday, October 27, the Coalition against Typhoid (CaT) Secretariat hosted a symposium at the 64th Annual American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The ...
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Surveillance for Enteric Fever in Asia Project (SEAP) kicks off in Kathmandu with first site investigator meeting
The first site investigator meeting of the Surveillance for Enteric Fever in Asia Project (SEAP) took place February 25 – February 28 in Kathmandu, Nepal.
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Coalition against Typhoid (CaT) featured in The Lancet
A recent expert meeting on typhoid epidemiological modeling, organized by the Coalition against Typhoid, marks one of the first attempts to jolt governments into action against typhoid fever, a disease ...
Read moreVIVA Initiative targets typhoid fever in Pakistan and Nepal
This story, by Leon Ochiai and Mohamed Imran Khan, of the International Vaccine Institute (IVI)’s VIVA Initiative, originally appeared in the May 2011 issue of the Global Immunization Newsletters. It describes the progress of ...
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