Better diagnostic tools needed to distinguish typhoid from other causes of acute febrile illness
Published on November 16, 2023
More than 8 million people contract typhoid annually, resulting in about 100 000 deaths. Despite associated sociopsychological and economic fallouts,1 the typhoid diagnostics field has not accelerated sufficiently to allow reliable detection of this disease.2 Co-occurrence of other acute undifferentiated febrile illnesses make clinical examination alone insufficient to differentiate typhoid from other such illnesses, making diagnostic evaluation essential