Twenty-two local cases of paratyphoid fever have been reported so far this year — the highest number for the period since 2014, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said yesterday. One imported case ...

Typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever are clinically indistinguishable and produce the syndrome known as enteric fever. Both are caused by Salmonella that infect only humans. Therefore, when the ...

Background: Although enteric fever (typhoid and paratyphoid fevers) is a major global public health problem, comparable data on the risks of contracting travel-associated enteric fever in various ...

In the 7-year study period, a total of 115 cases of typhoid fever and 229 cases of paratyphoid fever were notified to the SMI, of which 91 (79%) and 196 (86%), respectively, were associated with ...

Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers - collectively known as enteric fevers - are bacterial infections. Typhoid is caused by the bacterium Salmonella typhi, while paratyphoid fever, which is usually a ...

A new study is set to test a vaccine looking to protect against a disease caused by two different types of Salmonella bacteria. The Oxford Vaccine Group has launched the BiVISTA study to evaluate ...

The first volunteers have received doses of vaccine, or a placebo, in Oxford Volunteers are set to be infected with a highly contagious bacteria to test a new paratyphoid vaccine. The study in ...