Adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is rarely reported in association with typhoid fever despite the fact that sepsis is a common manifestation and endotoxemia has been described in this multisystem condition. We describe the course of a patient with ARDS and typhoid fever. With conventional treatment of the lung injury and with specific antimicrobial therapy, the patient survived. Recen...

Dengue and enteric typhoid fever are major public health problems in India and risk of contracting both infections concurrently. The present study was aimed to determining the occurrence of dengue fever in febrile patients and co-infection with Typhoid fever in South Indian population. The 632 patients sera with febrile illness from January to September 2017 were tested for Dengue virus NS1 and...

Sir,?On page 567 of the Indian Medical Gazette for November 1945, in comment No. (2) on the term Parenteric Fever you state that 'Dorland's medical dictionary does not even mention enteric fever or the enteric group of fevers'. This comment is incorrect, for on page 449, second column of the medical dictionary quoted under Fevers, enteric fever appears and is defined as typhoid fever. Immediate...

BACKGROUND Drug resistant typhoid fever is a major clinical problem globally. Many of the first line antibiotics, including the older generation fluoroquinolones, ciprofloxacin and ofloxacin, are failing. OBJECTIVES We performed a randomised controlled trial to compare the efficacy and safety of gatifloxacin (10 mg/kg/day) versus azithromycin (20 mg/kg/day) as a once daily oral dose for 7 day...