A skeleton in the closet: The implications of COVID-19 on XDR strain of typhoid in Pakistan

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...

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Autores principales: Ahmad, Shoaib, Tsagkaris, Christos, Aborode, Abdullahi Tunde, Ul Haque, Muhammad Tanzeel, Khan, Shayan Iqbal, Khawaja, Uzzam Ahmed, Carla dos Santos Costa, Ana, Essar, Mohammad Yasir, Lucero-Prisno, Don Eliseo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7826057/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33521736
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.puhip.2021.100084
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Sumario: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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