Rising incidence of resistant typhoid in Kenya

27 October 2021

A study conducted on children living in informal settlements near Nairobi has found high rates of multidrug-resistant (H58) typhoid fever present. Some degree of resistance to antibiotics was identified in more than 95 percent of S. typhi infections, while MDR typhoid was seen in just over three-quarters of positive cases. Read more

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Africa

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