Enteric fever is endemic in many parts of the third world. In India, it is the fifth most common infectious disease. With increasing resistance to fluoroquinolones and re-emergence of chloramphenicol , the policy of empirical treatment of TF needs to be rationalized.   To compare the prescription     pattern    for two successive years. To study the change in...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Malaria and typhoid fever still remain diseases of major public health importance in the tropics. Individuals in areas endemic for both the diseases are at substantial risk of contracting both these diseases, either concurrently or an acute infection superimposed on a chronic one. The objective of this report was to systematically review scientific data from studies cond...

as negative even up to the 30th day of illness, and positive thereafter at 1 : 100 or higher dilution. The negative agglutination test in this case appears to have been observed about the 17th day of illness. Tice, in his Practice of Medicine (1927), Vol. IV, p. 503. says that " while a positive result is highly presumptive of typhoid, a negative finding has no significance." There is a tempera...

A 21-year-old male presented with pain in the right thigh of insidious onset and 3 months' duration. He had a history of febrile illness lasting for 15 days, 2 months prior to the onset of pain. Examination revealed swelling over the lower lateral aspect of the right thigh with some induration and tenderness. Initial X-rays of the right femur and the computed tomography scan at 10 weeks after t...

OBJECTIVE To determine the baseline Widal titres in apparently healthy children in Davangere. METHODS Cross-sectional study was done on 250 children. Widal titers were found using tube agglutination test. RESULTS Out of 250,64.2% had a titre of less than 1:20,22.4% had a titre equal to 1:20,9.6% had a titre of 1:40 and 3.6% had a titre of 1:80 to 'O' antigen and 67.2% had a titre of less th...

BSTRACT nteric fever is endemic in many parts of the third world. In India, it is the fifth most common infectious isease. With increasing resistance to fluoroquinolones and re-emergence of chloramphenicol, the policy f empirical treatment of typhoid fever (TF) needs to be rationalized. This study was carried out to comare the prescription pattern of typhoid fever for two successive years, to s...

INTRODUCTION Typhoid fever is endemic in Egypt; and quinolones are the empirical treatment of choice. There are very limited data reporting quinolone resistance among Egyptian typhoidal Salmonella isolates. We previously reported that all typhoidal Salmonella were sensitive to quinolones. This study aimed to isolate and identify typhoidal Salmonella from cases suffering from enteric fever at Mi...