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

• Principais autores: Shoaib Ahmad (Autor), Christos Tsagkaris (Autor), Abdullahi Tunde Aborode (Autor), Muhammad Tanzeel Ul Haque (Autor), Shayan Iqbal Khan (Autor), Uzzam Ahmed Khawaja (Autor), Ana Carla dos Santos Costa (Autor), Mohammad Yasir Essar (Autor), Don Eliseo Lucero-Prisno, III (Autor)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: Elsevier, 2021-11-01T00:00:00Z.
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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...