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. 2022 Jan 17:9:794868.
doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.794868. eCollection 2021.

Rising XDR-Typhoid Fever Cases in Pakistan: Are We Heading Back to the Pre-antibiotic Era?

Muhammad Hammad Butt  1 , Aqsa Saleem  2 , Syed Owais Javed  2 , Irfan Ullah  3 , Mujeeb Ur Rehman  4 , Nayyer Islam  4 , Muhammad Azam Tahir  5 , Tangina Malik  6 , Sara Hafeez  7 , Shahzadi Misbah  1
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Rising XDR-Typhoid Fever Cases in Pakistan: Are We Heading Back to the Pre-antibiotic Era?

Muhammad Hammad Butt et al. Front Public Health. .
No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; Pakistan; infectious disease; outbreak; tropical disease.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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