The frightening disease burden of blood culture proven XDR Typhoidal isolates in pediatric population in a tertiary care hospital in Islamabad; Time to implement a holistic approach countrywide
Samia Khawaja,
Umme Farwa,
Soffia Khursheed
et al.
Abstract:Background: Typhoid fever is a deadly enteric bacterial infection and millions of people all over the globe are endangered of acquiring it. Since the first outbreak of XDR typhoid in Pakistan in 2016, the ever-rising resistance of typhoid has become a major threat faced by the pediatric population of Pakistan. There is a dearth of available data in children harboring this extensively drug resistant pathogen countrywide. The objective of this study is to highlight the alarmingly increasing prevalence of XDR S. … Show more
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