Tag: typhoid
With the water crisis in Mayotte a risk of epidemics of typhoid fever and cholera
This is the water crisis in Mayotte. For months, running water has been distributed there in dribs and drabs. Soon, it will only be accessible one day out of three…
Resistant typhoid pathogens are spreading – new mutations are making bacteria increasingly immune to modern antibiotics
Reason for concern: In recent years, typhoid bacteria have increasingly developed new antibiotic resistance, as revealed by genetic analysis. The mutations make the pathogens immune to modern emergency antibiotics and…
Spread of resistant typhoid pathogens – wissenschaft.de
The infectious disease typhoid caused by bacteria claims around 100,000 lives every year, mainly in South Asia and Africa. Genetic analyzes of more than 7,000 pathogen samples from all over…