HANOI, Vietnam, March 26 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Beginning today, the 11th International Conference on Typhoid and Other Invasive Salmonelloses brings together more than 450 researchers, policy makers and advocates who are dedicated to improving the lives of young children and their families suffering from typhoid, paratyphoid and invasive non-typhoidal Salmonella. During this three-day conference hosted by the Coalition against Typhoid, a program of the Sabin Vaccine Institute (Sabin), attendees from more than 40 countries will discuss the latest research and strategies to take on enteric fever, with the goal of translating recent global advancements into local impact for prevention and control at the community level.
Typhoid continues to cause an estimated 11 million cases and more than 116,000 deaths annually, largely affecting children in low-income communities in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Prevention is more urgent than ever, with widespread antimicrobial resistance making the disease harder to treat. A recent outbreak of extensively drug-resistant typhoid in Pakistan exhibited resistance to five antibiotics, leaving only one oral antibiotic available for treatment.