On March 28th ended the 11th International Conference on Typhoid and Other Invasive Salmonelloses. Thanks to the Coalition against Typhoid group for arranging such a wonderful event where enthusiastic researchers from across the globe shared their stories, opinions, and findings and thus pushed the field quite a bit further.

Typhoid is the most common infection in children in Bangladesh. If the trend of rising antibiotic resistance is not interrupted soon, mortality rates can shoot up. In this article, published in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Senjuti Saha of CHRF and her colleagues describe a low-cost and sustainable surveillance approach to monitor typhoid.

We are conducting active laboratory-based surveillance and well-designed epidemiological surveys to guide decision-making by public health officials for disease prevention and control programs of typhoid fever.