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Brain Behav
January 2025
Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Auckland, Grafton, Auckland, New Zealand.
Introduction: Considerable evidence suggests a pathophysiological role of neuroinflammation in psychiatric disorders. Lumbar puncture and positron emission tomography (PET) show increased levels of inflammation in psychiatric disorders. However, the invasive nature of these techniques, as well as their expense, make them undesirable for routine use in patients.
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December 2024
Department of Pathology, IPGMER & SSKM Hospital, 242 Harish Mukherjee Road, Kolkata 700020, India.
Enteric fever is one of the important causes of tropical fever with a prevalence of 11-21 million cases worldwide annually. It encompasses both typhoid and paratyphoid fever. Typhi is the causative organism for typhoid fever, manifesting as an uncomplicated febrile illness to life-threatening sepsis with multiorgan dysfunction.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIndian J Med Res
December 2024
ICMR-National Institute of Occupational Health, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
Enteric fever is caused by the infection of Gram-negative bacteria, Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi and Salmonella enterica serovar Paratyphi (S. Paratyphi) A, B and C, through contaminated food and water. The disease almost exclusively affects the populations living in low- and middle-income countries, with the World Health Organization Southeast Asian Region (WHO SEAR) having the highest endemicity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVaccines (Basel)
November 2024
GSK Vaccines Institute for Global Health (GVGH), 53100 Siena, Italy.
Background/objectives: Typhoid and paratyphoid fever together are responsible for millions of cases and thousands of deaths per year, most of which occur in children in South and Southeast Asia. While typhoid conjugate vaccines (TCVs) are licensed, no vaccines are currently available against Paratyphi A. Here we describe the design of a Paratyphi A conjugate.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTyphoid and Paratyphoid fever cause a global health burden, especially for the children of Southern Asia. The impact of the disease is further exacerbated by the dramatic increase of antimicrobial resistance. While vaccines against Typhi have been developed and successfully introduced, an effective vaccine targeting Paratyphi A is still lacking.
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