Tag: Typhoid
Study offers new insights into foodborne disease
Researchers from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, have detected how protein in Salmonella called SopB, uses two mechanisms to avoid being destroyed by the immune system
Scientists devise new method to fight Typhoid
In their new study, the team of researchers from IIT-Indore in collaboration with a team from the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (DBT-THSTI) has identified three regions in the genome of the Salmonella enterica bacterium that can be used as drug targets to combat it...............................
How heavy metals are helping spread drug resistance
Researchers have identified exposure to cadmium as a reason for Salmonella becoming resistant to antibiotics and have deciphered how cadmium affects the bacteria.......................
New method developed for faster typhoid diagnosis
The new method uses magnetic nanoparticles coupled with antibodies. In tests, it was found that over 65 percent bacteria cells got bound to nanoparticles within 30 minutes...............
Bharat Biotech’s Typbar TCV vaccine prequalified by WHO
The prequalification by the World Health Organisation (WHO) enables the world’s first clinically proven Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine against typhoid fever for procurement and supplies to UNICEF, Pan-American Health Organization & GAVI supported countries.....
Scientists decipher how Salmonella survives in human cells
According to the study, pathogens have evolved several tactics to manipulate the activity of host proteins, all at aimed at creating their intracellular replicative niche..........
Bharat Biotech’s typhoid vaccine confirms high efficacy in a study by...
According to the trial’s results published in The Lancet, the TypbarTCV vaccine turned out to be 87 percent effective for infants, older children and adults, under real life conditions............
Pfizer IIT-Delhi Innovation Program announces first round of grant awardees
Made in India innovations ‘early stage typhoid diagnosis and antibiotic susceptibility test’ and ‘wearable nasal air purification device’ selected......