Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever are clinically indistinguishable and produce the syndrome known as enteric ...

Salmonella enterica S Typhi. (Microbewriter/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY SA 4.0) An ancient killer has plagued humans for ...

There is an epidemic outbreak of typhoid fever is Sub-Saharan Africa. Part of the problem is ignorance and poor access to quality healthcare services. People need to be educated about the causes, ...

Researchers can accurately track where typhoid fever cases are highest by monitoring environmental samples for viruses called bacteriophages that specifically infect the bacterium that causes typhoid ...

Prior to the advent of antimicrobial therapy, case fatality rates for typhoid fever exceeded 20% in many areas, since untreated disease led to complications such as intestinal perforation. In 1948, ...

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) — ...

There is a high burden of typhoid fever in sub-Saharan African countries, according to a new study published in The Lancet Global Health. This high burden combined with the threat of typhoid strains ...

Residents of South Delhi's Gulmohar Park are facing a health crisis with a surge in typhoid, diarrhoea, and other water-borne ...

THIS handsome volume is a thesis on the question of how typhoid or enteric fever is propagated. Dr. Budd adopts what is known as the contagion theory, and believes that every case of the disease is ...

A special episode from our colleagues at NPR's history podcast Throughline. When a cook who carried typhoid fever showed no symptoms and refused to stop working, authorities forcibly quarantined her ...