Frontline Antibiotics Losing to Typhoid Mutations

In Travel Vaccine News by Travel Vaccine

The bacteria that causes typhoid fever is becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics used to treat the disease, with resistant strains spreading to hundreds of countries in the past three decades, according to an analysis published by The Lancet Microbe in June 2022.
This recent study shows how resistant strains from South Asia, where the disease is endemic, have spread 200 times to other countries since 1990.

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