isolate was sent for confirmation and serotyping to National Salmonella and Escherichia reference centre, Kasuali, Himachal Pradesh, India. It was identified as S.typhimurim 4, 5 12:i:1,2. The isolate was sensitive to ciprofloxacin and norfloxacin with resistance to third generation cephalosporins, aminoglycosides, ampicillin, chloramphenicol and co-trimonazole. No Mycobacterium or fungus was i...

Typhoid fever is one of the most common febrile illnesses encountered by the physicians in Bangladesh. Diagnosis is not difficult but has lately become a challenge due to changed clinical pattern of the disease, lack of adequate facilities for blood, stool, urine culture, excessive reliance on nonspecific Widal test and non availability of any reliable rapid diagnostic tests. Further, the indis...

Patients comprising of five hundred and sixty-nine (569) males and nine hundred and ten (910) females who attended primary health care units from the Northern Edumoga, Southern Edumoga (Ugbokolo) and Okpoga/Ichama areas were screened for Salmonella typhi and Salmonella paratyphi over a period of nine months, using slide agglutination and stool culture techniques. The organisms isolated from inf...

The Typhidot test, which detects IgM and IgG antibodies to a Salmonella typhi-specific outer membrane protein, is as sensitive as, and more specific than, the Widal test in the diagnosis of enteric fever in Malaysian children. It is easier and quicker to perform. In order to increase diagnostic accuracy in an area of high endemicity, the Typhidot-M test has been developed in which IgG is first ...