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Malaria and typhoidal co-infection among febrile patients: a health facility-based cross-sectional study in Northern Ghana
Published on 03/03/2026 |
Original article (Full-text)
| Dassah Sylvester Donne et al. | BMC Infectious Diseases 2025; 25(1): 1499 7 min.
Febrile illnesses constitute a significant public health burden in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) [1]. In addition to the high-grade fever, febrile illness often occurs alongside other symptoms such as malaise, anorexia, headaches, cough, body aches, diarrhoea, or other respiratory or neurological signs. The...
Typhoid
High prevalence of multi-drug resistant H58 Salmonella Typhi and emerging fluoroquinolone resistance among febrile children in Nairobi County, Kenya
Published on 03/03/2026 |
Original article (Full-text)
| Kavai Susan Mutile et al. | BMC Infectious Diseases 2025; 26(1): 63 4 min.
Typhoid fever is a widespread infection in humans caused by the bacterium S. Typhi [1, 2]. In 2025, the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that approximately 9.2 million cases of typhoid fever occur worldwide each year, causing an estimated 133,000 deaths [3]. A separate...
