Infectious Disease

Typhoid

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19 August, 2025

Fighting Typhoid with Phages: A View on Public Health from the Environment

Every petri dish in a lab tells us a story of a patient. And a drop of sewage water also tells us the story of...

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20 December, 2024

Mapping Typhoid Hotspots: CHRF’s Surveillance Project across Bangladesh

The Child Health Research Foundation (CHRF) recently wrapped up the field work of the groundbreaking two-year project, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,...

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07 December, 2023

10 CHRF Members Attend Typhoid Conference in Rwanda

Our executive director received special recognition, while our team delivered impactful poster presentations and insightful talks on CHRF's cutting-edge typhoid research.

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21 November, 2023

CHRF's Work on Typhoid & Paratyphoid - Genomics Chapter

At CHRF, we have been conducting typhoid and paratyphoid surveillance since the 1990s.

29 November, 2021

3 days of Typhoid in Vietnam

On March 28th ended the 11th International Conference on Typhoid and Other Invasive Salmonelloses. Thanks to the Coalition against Typhoid group for arranging such a...

29 November, 2021

A low cost approach to track typhoid, an increasingly important disease

Typhoid is the most common infection in children in Bangladesh. If the trend of rising antibiotic resistance is not interrupted soon, mortality rates can shoot...

29 November, 2021

Typhoid Diagnostics for Measuring Disease Burden

We are conducting active laboratory-based surveillance and well-designed epidemiological surveys to guide decision-making by public health officials for disease prevention and control programs of typhoid...