Multidrug-resistant typhoid infects Australian toddler
GPs reminded to offer vaccination to travellers to endemic areas
16th September 2019
By Paul Smith
An infant returning from Pakistan has been identified as Australia’s first case of extensively drug-resistant typhoid.
The subject of this photo is a model.
The plight of the 20-month-old girl, who presented to the Children’s Hospital at Westmead in Sydney with features of enteric fever after spending three months in Karachi, is being used to flag the importance of typhoid vaccination for travellers to South and South-East