Twenty-two local cases of paratyphoid fever have been reported so far this year — the highest number for the period since 2014, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said yesterday. One imported case ...

Typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever are clinically indistinguishable and produce the syndrome known as enteric fever. Both are caused by Salmonella that infect only humans. Therefore, when the ...

In the 7-year study period, a total of 115 cases of typhoid fever and 229 cases of paratyphoid fever were notified to the SMI, of which 91 (79%) and 196 (86%), respectively, were associated with ...

Background: Although enteric fever (typhoid and paratyphoid fevers) is a major global public health problem, comparable data on the risks of contracting travel-associated enteric fever in various ...

Win Thandar Oo, Tin Ohn Myat, Wah Win Htike, James E. Ussher, David R. Murdoch, Kay Thi Lwin, Min Zaw Oo, Michael J. Maze, Hla Hla Win, John A. Crump, Incidence of Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers Among ...

Volunteers are set to be infected with a highly contagious bacteria to test a new paratyphoid vaccine. The study in Oxford involves 76 healthy, 18 to 55-year-olds drinking a solution containing ...

The Oxford Vaccine Group has launched the BiVISTA study to evaluate an experimental combination vaccine aimed at preventing enteric fever, a disease caused by typhoid and paratyphoid.

Human trials for the paratyphoid vaccine are taking place for up to 76 people at Churchill Hospital. Participants, aged 18 to 55 and in good health, will be randomised to either receive two doses ...

Paratyphoid fever, a notifiable disease, was diagnosed in Potchefstroom last Thursday when laboratory results of two patients tested positive. The patients were treated at Mooimed Hospital.