Research published on August 7th in PLOS Pathogens comparing the two pathogens reveals how S.
Typhi avoids recognition and elimination by patrolling immune cells called neutrophils, allowing it to disseminate throughout the patient's body.
Conducted by Prof Rose McGready and Assoc. Prof Daniel Henry Paris from the Shoklo Malaria
Research Unit (SMRU) in Mae Sot, Thailand, and the Mahidol Oxford
Research Unit (MORU) in Bangkok, affiliated to Oxford University, UK, in collaboration with Prof John Antony Jude Prakash of the Dept. of Clinical Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India, the study, «Pregnancy outcome in relation to treatment of Murine
typhus and Scrub
typhus infection: a fever cohort and a case series analysis,» will be published in the November 20th, 2014 issue of PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.