Typhoid fever still affects thousands every year, especially in countries with unsafe water and poor sanitation. The disease is caused by Salmonella Typhi bacteria and spreads through contaminated ...

Typhoid fever is a bacterial infection caused by Salmonella Typhi and is usually spread through contaminated food or water.

About 15% of patients with typhoid fever develop serious neurological complications, including delirium and seizures, that are collectively described as acute encephalopathy. Until now, however, ...

The bacteria that causes typhoid fever is becoming increasingly resistant to common antibiotics used to treat the disease, with resistant strains spreading to hundreds of countries in the past three ...

For one terrible night in March 2010, in a field clinic outside Port-au-Prince, Haiti, I watched a child die of typhoid fever. She had arrived earlier in the day from a tent city, one of many wretched ...

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 ...

Most people in the United States, myself included, tend to think of typhoid as a disease vanquished by 1920 with the advent of public sewage systems and antibiotics. Some of us may vaguely recall the ...

Treatment-resistant typhoid originating mostly from South Asia has springboarded across borders almost 200 times in the past three decades, according to new research that underscores the increasing ...

Scientists have recovered whole genomes of multidrug-resistant Salmonella Typhi, the bacterium that causes typhoid fever, ...

Worldwide, 20% of the bacterial strains that cause typhoid fever have genetic variations in their external layer, called Vi capsule, that provide higher virulence, higher infectivity and high ...

In a rare occurrence of locally acquired typhoid fever in Canada, health officials in Ottawa recently traced an outbreak back to a chronic Salmonella Typhi carrier working as a food handler. The ...