ALLMedicine™ Typhoid Center

May 15th, 2022 - Serum salmonellacidal (bactericidal) antibody could be used to detect functional capacity of antibody in patients with enteric fever and after typhoid vaccination. Salmonellacidal antibody response was measured by colorimetric serum salmonellacida...

May 15th, 2022 - During February 25-March 4, 2019, Zimbabwe's Ministry of Health and Child Care conducted an emergency campaign using 342,000 doses of typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) targeting individuals 6 months-15 years of age in eight high-risk suburbs of Hara...

May 15th, 2022 - The objective of the present study was to create a highly attenuated, safe Salmonella Gallinarium (SG) vaccine strain for chicken vaccination against fowl typhoid (FT) diseases. The SG vaccine strain (SGVS) consists of three virulence-related gene...

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

May 11th, 2022 - Invasive Salmonella infection, which can cause typhoid/paratyphoid fever and invasive non-typhoidal salmonellosis, is a public health burden in Africa. Accurate diagnosis and etiological characterization are required to conduct prevalence and risk...

Dec 29th, 2021 - Typhoid fever remains a significant health problem in sub-Saharan Africa, with incidence rates >100 cases per 100,000 person-years of observation. Despite the prequalification of safe and effective typhoid conjugate vaccines (TCV), the uptake of t...

Dec 10th, 2021 - Typhoid fever results from infection with a bacterium called Salmonella Typhi and is a major cause of illness worldwide. It is estimated to infect 20-25 million people every year and can affect people of all ages, but is particularly common in you...

Oct 20th, 2021 - This is an open-label, non-randomized study. The purpose of this study is to better understand how vaccines against typhoid fever affect the normal immune system and bacteria in the intestine. Patients having standard-of-care colonoscopies will be...

Oct 13th, 2021 - This is an open-label, non-randomized study. Volunteers will be vaccinated with the typhoid oral vaccine, Vivotif. Vivotif has been licensed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for travelers to developing countries. Volunteers will also be a...

Aug 31st, 2021 - In sub-Saharan Africa, non-typhoidal Salmonella (NTS) are a frequent cause of bloodstream infection (BSI) in young children, display high levels of antibiotic resistance and have a high case fatality rate (15%). In Kisantu hospital in the Democrat...

Apr 28th, 2022 - LONDON (Reuters) - Measles cases jumped by 79% in the first two months of this year compared to 2021, after COVID-19 and lockdowns disrupted child vaccination campaigns around the world, according to data from UNICEF and the World Health Organizat...

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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...

Aug 19th, 2021 - While most outbreaks of foodborne illness peak and recede, one southern Michigan restaurant struggled with an intermittent Salmonella outbreak for more than a decade. From September 2008 to July 2019, there were 35 primary cases and one secondary ...

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...