2024
DOI: 10.3998/umurj.5505
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Extensive Drug-Resistant Typhoid Fever Prevention and Management in Pakistan: A Challenge to Public Health

Bilal Irfan

Abstract: Typhoid fever is a bacterial infection that largely spreads through contamination in food and water, as well as close contact, and displays many cold-like symptoms in addition to more severe gastrointestinal, muscle, and life-threatening states. The emergence of a new, extensive drug-resistant (XDR) strain in Hyderabad, Pakistan in 2016 resulted in the need for stronger antimicrobials to combat the pathogen. Despite vaccination and contact tracing interventions, the multi-drug resistance and fitness of the H58… Show more

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