Public health officials are concerned about the potential spread of diseases like typhoid, influenza, cholera, leptospirosis and infective diarrhoea.
Pesticides are toxic material which acts not only on insect and other pests, but also against spread of diseases like malaria, typhoid, plague or sleeping sickness (Islam et al. 2007).
To use the example of typhoid, a disease spread through contaminated food and water, it first becomes important to establish that the disease observed is truly caused by Salmonella typhi, the typhoid organism.
If an equal number of typhoid bacteria are spread on a person's skin and on a glass plate, those on the skin die much more quickly than do those on the plate, suggesting that the skin has some bactericidal property against typhoid germs.
LONDON, May 11 (Reuters) - An antibiotic-resistant "superbug" strain of typhoid fever has spread globally, driven by a single family of the bacteria, called H58, according to the findings of a large international study.
Health workers were fanning out across parts of Bangladesh and India to try to prevent the spread of waterborne diseases like diarrhea, typhoid and cholera.
Intracellular survival and systemic spread of Salmonella in the murine typhoid infection model relies on SPI2 and SPI2-associated effector proteins and their ability to interfere with vesicular trafficking of the host cell.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation does ground-breaking sanitation work in Durban, South Africa, tackling the spread of infectious diseases such as cholera, typhoid, hepatitis and polio.
Under nonsanitary conditions the common housefly Musca can play an incidental role in the spread of human intestinal infections (e.g., typhoid, bacillary and amebic dysentery) by contamination of food.
These hand dug wells pose a major risk to public health and contribute to the spread of diseases such as guinea worm, typhoid, cholera, hepatitis A, and other diarrhoeal-related diseases.
