Abstract:The incidence of typhoid fever has not decreased since 1990, making it an important yet neglected contributor to health care costs. There has been an emergence of multi drug resistant typhoid fever, wherein there is no response to the first line of antimicrobials like ampicillin, chloramphenicol and cotrimoxazole. The fluoroquinolones and cephalosporins have been used in the treatment of cases, but there has been a recent epidemic of resistance to these drugs in some parts of the world. The H58 clade which is … Show more
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