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Salmonella exploits the host endolysosomal tethering factor HOPS complex to promote its intravacuolar replication

Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium extensively remodels the host late endocytic compartments to establish its vacuolar niche within the host cells conducive for its replication, also known as the Salmonella-containing vacuole (SCV). By maintaining a prolonged interaction with late endosomes and lysosomes of the host cells in the form of interconnected network of tubules (Salmonella-induced filaments or SIFs), Salmonella gains access to both membrane and fluid-phase cargo from these compartments.

Publication Date: 
30/10/2017
Aastha Sindhwani, Subhash B. Arya, Harmeet Kaur & et al
PLoS Pathogens
1-46
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Diseases, Micro Organisms, Waterborne diseases
Health

Africa: Cholera Death Toll Escalates in East, Southern Africa

An intense cholera outbreak has killed some 1 562 people in Eastern and Southern Africa since the beginning of the year.

Publication Date: 
26/10/2017
All Africa
Tags:
Health, Cholera, Waterborne diseases, Kenya, Angola, Burundi, Malawi, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Africa, Somalia
Health

Typhoid outbreak hits Mbare

The latest outbreak, confirmed by council spokesperson Michael Chideme yesterday, has been blamed on water shortages, raw sewer spillages and uncollected garbage in the city’s populous high-density

Publication Date: 
23/10/2017
News Day (Zimbabwe)
Tags:
Health, Typhoid, Waterborne diseases, Zimbabwe, Africa
Health

Levels & trends in child mortality

This report presents the UN-IGME's latest estimates, up to year end of 2015, of under-five, infant and neonatal mortality and assesses progress towards MDG 4 at the country, regional and global levels. Estimates to year end of 2016 will be published in September 2017.

Publication Date: 
19/10/2017
UNICEF
Tags:
Child Health, Infant mortality, Communicable Diseases, Africa, India, Pakistan, China, Statistics, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Infectious Diseases, Sanitation, Waterborne diseases
Health

Kumbra witnesses rise in typhoid, dengue cases

Poor sanitation, water accumulation behind spread of diseases

Publication Date: 
16/10/2017
Tribune (New Delhi)
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Punjab, Dengue, Typhoid, Waterborne diseases, Vector Borne Diseases, Health Effects, Sanitation, Health
Health

Zambia: Lusaka Cholera Cases Rise

More cholera cases have been reported in Lusaka with the Ministry of Health placing the city on high alert.

The cholera cases have now risen to 11 from nine.

Publication Date: 
10/10/2017
All Africa
Tags:
Health, Cholera, Waterborne diseases, Zambia, Water Supply, Africa
Health

Diarrhea outbreak infects 127 in Ethiopia's second largest city

An Acute Watery Diarrhea (AWD) disease in Ethiopia's second largest city Dire Dawa, 446 kms east of Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, has infected 127 people in September, an Ethiopian official said

Publication Date: 
10/10/2017
Xinhua
Tags:
Health, Diarrhoea, Ethiopia, Waterborne diseases, Africa
Health

Health Workers Race to Contain Cholera Outbreak in Northeast Nigeria

DAKAR, SENEGAL - Health workers in northeast Nigeria said Tuesday that they were striving to contain a cholera outbreak that's sweeping through camps for those uprooted by Boko Haram.

Publication Date: 
20/09/2017
Big News Network
Tags:
Health, Cholera, Waterborne diseases, Nigeria, Water Supply, Africa, Diseases
Health

Referral challenge hits bid to contain cholera in Nigeria's northeast

Efforts to contain a cholera outbreak that has struck more than 1,000 people in refugee camps in northeast Nigeria are being hampered because people are failing to report suspected cases to authori

Publication Date: 
13/09/2017
Thompson Reuters Foundation (TRUST)
Tags:
Health, Cholera, Waterborne diseases, Nigeria, Africa, UNICEF
Health

WHO: Over 500 Dead as Congo Cholera Epidemic Spreads

KINSHASA - More than 500 people have died so far in a cholera epidemic that is sweeping the Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.

Publication Date: 
12/09/2017
Big News Network
Tags:
Health, Cholera, Waterborne diseases, Epidemics, Congo, WHO, Africa

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