A skeleton in the closet: The implications of COVID-19 on XDR strain of typhoid in Pakistan.
Public Health Pract (Oxf)
; 2: 100084, 2021 Nov.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1046161
ABSTRACT
Extensively drug resistant typhoid fever is a major public health concern in Pakistan. During the COVID-19 pandemic, poor sanitation is leading typhoid cases to a surge and obsolete diagnostic methods are paving the way towards ir-rational pharmacotherapy. In particular, the overuse of azithromycin for the treatment of COVID-19 might impair one of the few remaining regimens against XDR. Facing COVID-19 and XDR at the same time can lead to a catastrophy, unless the government, the stakeholders and healthcare workers take joint action to improve sanitation, educate the public, vaccinate vulnerable groups and establish good diagnostic and management practices.
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Vaccines
Language:
English
Journal:
Public Health Pract (Oxf)
Year:
2021
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Article
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J.puhip.2021.100084
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