Hong Kong Training Portal on
Infection Control and Infectious Disease

Epidemiology

• Drug-resistant enteric fever worldwide, 1990 to 2018: a systematic review and meta-analysis (3 Jan 2020)
• Progress in Typhoid Fever Epidemiology (2019 Feb 15)
• Global trends in typhoid and paratyphoid fever. (2010 Jan 15).
• A study of typhoid fever in five Asian countries: disease burden and implications for controls. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (2008).

Clinical Information and Management

• The Current Status of Enteric Fever Diagnostics and Implications for Disease Control (29 July 2020)
• Epidemiology, clinical presentation, laboratory diagnosis, antimicrobial resistance, and antimicrobial management of invasive Salmonella infections. (2015 Oct 1).
• Diagnostics for invasive Salmonella infections: current challenges and future directions. (2015 Jun 19).
• Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi and the pathogenesis of typhoid fever. (2014 Sep 8).
• Current concepts in the diagnosis and treatment of typhoid fever. (2006 Jul 6).
• Typhoid and paratyphoid fever in travellers. (2005 Oct 1).
• Typhoid fever in children aged less than 5 years. (1999 Aug 28).

Vaccination

• Salmonella Typhi outer membrane protein STIV is a potential candidate for vaccine development against typhoid and paratyphoid fever (May 2019)
• Revised Global Typhoid Vaccination Policy (15 Feb 2019)
• Live attenuated vaccines for invasive Salmonella infections. (2015 Jun 19)