ALLMedicine™ Typhoid Fever Center

Jun 25th, 2022 - Typhax is an investigational typhoid fever vaccine candidate that is comprised of Vi polysaccharide from Salmonella enterica serovar typhi (S. Typhi) non-covalently entrapped in a glutaraldehyde catalyzed, cross-linked α-poly-L-lysine and CRM197 p...

Jun 18th, 2022 - Tackling typhoid fever burden in south Asia.|2022|Basnyat B,|epidemiology,epidemiology,prevention & control,

Jun 14th, 2022 - Typhoid fever remains a major global health problem in low-and middle-income countries. It affects millions of children and adults globally each year with high prevalence in South Asia. Up to 1% of patients who get typhoid may die of the disease a...

Jun 12th, 2022 - Zimbabwe suffers from regular outbreaks of typhoid fever (TF), worse since 2017. Most cases were in Harare and a vaccination campaign with Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine (TCV) was conducted in March 2019. The vaccine effectiveness (VE) was assessed aga...

May 11th, 2022 - Rainfall Anomalies and Typhoid Fever in Blantyre, Malawi.|2022|Gauld JS,Bilima S,Diggle PJ,Feasey NA,Read JM,|

May 4th, 2022 - This is an open-label, non-randomized study. The purpose of this study is to better understand how vaccines against typhoid fever and cholera affect the normal immune system and bacteria in the intestine. Patients having standard-of-care endoscopi...

Apr 26th, 2022 - The objective of the study is to collect data from participants for a period of 4 weeks. These data will be used for developing and testing an algorithm for early detection of infection. At the end of week two, subjects will receive an immunizatio...

Mar 11th, 2022 - Although there are many safe and effective vaccines for adults, the Public Health Agency of Canada has noted that public perception of vaccination is that it is primarily for infants and children. The National Advisory Committee on Immunization (N...

Mar 2nd, 2022 - Inulin, a dietary fiber supplement, is known to increase gut levels of potentially beneficial bacteria, including Bifidobacterium that are indigenous to gut microbiomes. Our underlying hypothesis is that the commensal microbiome, including Bifidob...

Feb 16th, 2022 - This study is a double-blind, individually randomized, controlled, clinical efficacy trial with two vaccine groups: Vi-TCV (Typhoid conjugate) and MCV-A (meningococcal group A conjugate). This study will take place in Blantyre, Malawi, Africa. Par...

Jun 23rd, 2022 - Bacteria that cause typhoid fever are becoming increasingly resistant to common antibiotics worldwide, a new analysis indicates. Resistant strains of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi (S Typhi) — almost all originating in South Asia — have spread ...

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Sep 16th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A single dose of the Vi-TCV typhoid fever vaccine was more than 80% effective in a test of 28,130 Malawian children aged nine months to 12 years, according to new research. There were 46.9 confirmed cases of typhoid per...

Mar 4th, 2021 - A 36-year-old African man who immigrated to the United States 10 years ago presents to the emergency department (ED) complaining of fever, fatigue, headache, muscle aches, and occasional nausea and vomiting for the past 5 days. He reports no chron...

Feb 17th, 2021 - A new drug-resistant strain of Salmonella Typhi has infected at least 71 people in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The new strain, extensively drug-resistant (XDR) Typhi, caused a large outbreak in P...