Rabbia Siddiqi, Yamna Waseem, Muhammad Wahdan Naseeb.
Drug-resistant typhoid epidemic in Pakistan highlights shortcomings of the public health infrastructure.
J Pak Med Assoc Jan ;69(1):147-147.

Madam, typhoid fever is a communicable acute systemic infection, which if untreated, can have lifethreatening complications such as intestinal perforation and haemorrhage. Recently a drugresistant strain of Salmonella enterica serotype typhi has been responsible for an epidemic in Pakistan. The outbreak, which began in Hyderabad in November, 2016, is now spreading throughout the country and has already infected over 850 people across 14 districts.1

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