Thursday, 26 September 2019

PRO/EDR> Typhoid fever - Taiwan: ex Pakistan, multidrug resistance

Fever -- China
The Taiwan Department of Disease Control (CDC) reported today (24 Sep 2019) the 1st imported case of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) typhoid fever in the country. The patient, a 30-year-old male, traveled to a number of countries during the incubation time including Pakistan, which has been battling an outbreak of XDR typhoid for several years. According to the results of genetic sequencing and drug-resistance gene comparison, the place where [the disease] was contracted was in

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6696377&promed&0

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