CONTEXT Neuropsychiatric complications associated with typhoid fever are relatively common in the tropics; however, typhoid fever with associated depression is rare and can present a diagnostic challenge to rural clinicians. ISSUE This case report describes a 12 year old female with no documented psychiatric history who developed signs and symptoms of delirium with depressive elements while a...

ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 5 Number 10 (2016) pp. 598-604 Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com Typhoid fever, an endemic disease caused by salmonella group of organisms is very common in India due to improper sanitation and poverty. Isolation of the causative organism from the blood and other body fluids remains the definitive test for the diagnosis of typhoid fever. But this isolation requires ...

our present knowledge of the development and spread of typhoid and paratyphoid, and of the methods employed in its diagnosis, prevention and treatment. There is a bibliography of over forty pages, which will give some idea of the immense material which it embraces in its far-reaching conspectus. The author's scheme is an ambitious one, and he has carried it out with much judgment and success. T...

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...

BACKGROUND Ocular and extraocular immune-mediated phenomena are known to occur following febrile illness. Vasculitis, retinitis and neurosensory detachment are not well-recognized sequelae of typhoid fever. FINDINGS We report a case of vasculitis, retinitis and macular neurosensory detachment presenting post typhoid fever. A 27-year-old female presented with decreased vision in right eye with...

Clinical features, laboratory findings, and complications of typhoid fever were correlated with sex through a retrospective case note review of 102 hospitalized culture-positive patients in Durban, South Africa. Intestinal perforation (P = 0.04), occult blood losses in stools (P = 0.04), and a mild reticulocytosis in the absence of hemolysis (P = 0.02) occurred more frequently in males than in ...

I believe that there are very few* physicians indeed of any experience in India who do not now believe that, in this country bs in England, we meet with cases of genuine typhoid fever. Since Seriven, Ewart, and others wrote on the subject, it has frequently been recognized and described. I have myself seen, at the Ilill Sanitarium from which I now write (MussoorieJ, a good many undoubted cases ...

One thousand nine hundred and twenty individuals admitted to the general teaching hospital in Balad City, suffer from abdominal pain, fever, a headache nausea. Acute chronic Typhoid-patients caused by S.typhi were diagnosed according positive blood stool culture respectively, using serological test IgG/ IgM. Out of total 1920 individuals, we documented 312 typhoid-patients S.typhi; 209(67%) urb...