Efforts to estimate the global burden of typhoid fever can be traced to a meeting of the Pan American Health Organization in 1984 and publication of the outcome in 1986.1 Although an important first step, the 1984 study was recognised as having a number of limitations including provision of scanty methodological detail, the availability of few source data, exclusion of China from the estimate, ...

Typhoid fever is caused by the gram-negative bacillus Salmonella typhi (S. typhi), and it is an important public health problem in developing countries.1 Typhoid fever is endemic in those parts of world where sanitation is poor.2 Perforation of the bowel from typhoid fever is a serious abdominal complication, which continues to be the most frequent cause of its highmorbidity andmortality.3 Term...

Typhoid fever is caused by gram-negative organism Salmonella typhi. The usual presentation is high-grade fever, but complications like gastrointestinal (GI) hemorrhage and perforation are also seen frequently. With the advent of antibiotics, these complications are rarely seen now. We present a case of a young female who was admitted with a diagnosis of typhoid fever presented with a massive GI...

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...