Despite all the treatments available today, typhoid fever, which works mainly in underdeveloped countries, occurs every year on average. nearly 200,000 people died. it causes. A study has been published raising concerns about the disease caused by the bacterium ‘Typhi’, a subspecies of the Salmonella bacteria, which has been around for hundreds of years.

New research published in The Lancet, the renowned journal of the medical world, showed that the bacteria that causes typhoid fever began to rapidly increase its resistance to drugs. Researchers who examined Typhi bacteria from Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and India between 2014 and 2019 found that the bacteria by increasing resistance to antibiotics encountered.

Rapidly increasing the resistance of bacteria that cause typhoid:

Today, only one of the antibiotics used for the prevention of typhoid continues to play an active role. But new research has shown that it increases the resistance of Typhi bacteria to this antibiotic, azithromycin. So much so that in the period from 2016 to 2019, a bacterial sample was found that was found to be resistant in a study in Pakistan. became the dominant genotype in the population.

According to scientists, the new research should prevent typhoid fever from becoming a major epidemic in the future. it was alarming† The measure that scientists are proposing in this regard is the use of ‘typhoid conjugate’ vaccines in typhoid-endemic countries. Today, Pakistan is the leading country in this regard. The country was the first in the world to routinely vaccinate against typhoid.