‘Typhoid gaining antibiotic resistance’

  • In the state, between August 4 and September 1, there have been 4,478 lab-confirmed typhoid fever cases
  • These cases have been rising steadily  from 749 between July 29 and August 4 to 1,103 in the period between August 26 and September 1
  • Recently in Ahmedabad, researchers at the Indian Institute of Public Health (IIPH) had analyzed reports of 51,260 blood cultures at two public medical college pathological laboratories and one corporate lab, in which Salmonella isolates were detected in only 146 (0.28%). Of these 67 (54%) were drug resistant