Athens's fall

Typhoid could have caused the fall of the powerful city state during the Peloponnesian wars, says a new study

Scientists propose Controlled Human Infection Model studies

In CHIM, researchers infect healthy participants with a weakened strain of a pathogen in a controlled setting to learn more about the infection …

New method developed for faster typhoid diagnosis

Developed by scientists at IIT, Delhi, the new test requires minimal blood quantity, besides being accurate and potentially cost-effective

Environmental changes, not resistant germs, reason for rise of epidemics, says study

Mutations in bacteria may eventually disappear, but this should not be seen as weakening the case of antibiotic resistance, say doctors

Various pathogens increasingly becoming resistant to critically important antimicrobials: ICMR report

Resistance of common pathogens more pronounced to fluoroquinolones, carbapenems, third generation cephalosporins classes of antibiotics

Untreated wastewater in developing countries: 14 billion a day and we don’t know where it ends up

This water causes diarrhoeal diseases that kill 800 children every day, mostly in India, Afghanistan and Congo

Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2021: Why India needs to re-examine its pediatric practices

Children often receive multiple courses of antibiotics every year since viral infections are recurrent. This makes them more vulnerable to …

India’s mysterious diseases: A timeline

India has witnessed at least 33 unknown fever and 12 acute encephalitis syndrome outbreaks since 2019

Higher incidences of water-borne diseases in fishermen drinking from Ganga: Survey

Consumption of and exposure to contaminated water has also led to predominance of skin diseases among fishing community

The one-shot wonder

Resisting arrest

Typhoid bacterium resilient to antibiotics

Drug from waste

Chitosan can provide protection against typhoid

Tainted meat

10-minute typhoid test

New technique can also detect the disease in early stages

Business in typhoid

Simply put: Diseased India

Children under five account for 30 per cent of deaths due to food borne diseases globally: WHO

Calls food borne diseases a ‘global concern’

Scientists decode genes of the house fly

Understanding the fly genome could help us improve human health and the environment

Indian scientists decipher how Salmonella survives in human cells

Salmonella is the causative agent of typhoid and gastroentritis

Mumbai hit with diseases after rains

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