This paper analyses how the Colombian medical elites made sense of typhoid fever before and during the inception of bacteriological ideas and practices in the second half of the nineteenth century. Assuming that the identity of typhoid fever has to be understood within the broader concerns of the medical community in question, I show how doctors first identified Bogotá's epidemics as typhoid fe...

Typhoid fever is a major health problem in many developing countries and its clinical features are similar to other types of bacterial enterocolitis. Definitive diagnosis by blood culture requires several days and is often unfeasible to perform in developing countries. More efficient and rapid diagnostic methods for typhoid are needed. We compared the pathological changes in the bowel and adjac...

BACKGROUND Typhoid fever remains an important disease in Africa, associated with outbreaks and the emerging multidrug resistant Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi (Salmonella Typhi) haplotype, H58. This study describes the incidence of, and factors associated with mortality due to, typhoid fever in South Africa, where HIV prevalence is high. METHODS AND FINDINGS Nationwide active laboratory-b...

CONTEXT The proportion of paratyphoid fever cases to typhoid fever cases may change due to urbanization and increased dependency on food purchased from street vendors. For containment of paratyphoid a different strategy may be needed than for typhoid, because risk factors for disease may not coincide and current typhoid vaccines do not protect against paratyphoid fever. OBJECTIVE To determine...

Introduction: Typhoid fever is a global health problem, causing significant morbidity and mortality throughout the developing world. A recent survey estimated a global number of 21.7 million illnesses and 217.000 deaths in the year 2000. Due to poverty and poor sanitary conditions, typhoid fever remains a major health problem in Nepal. A frequent complication of typhoid fever is perforation of ...

hemophagocytic syndrome is a non-malignant process that is characterized clinically by fever, hepatomegaly, splenomegaly, pancytopenia in peripheral blood, and reactive histiocytes in the bone marrow. bacterial infectious diseases like typhoid fever and brucellosis and viral infections including cmv, herpes viruses, and epstein-barr virus are diagnosed as the cause of this syndrome. in this pap...

OBJECTIVE In this study, the factors that induced a decrease in the incidence of typhoid fever were analyzed. Based on the study results, we propose a quantitative and concrete solution to reduce the incidence of typhoid fever. METHODS We analyzed the incidence and fatality rate of typhoid fever in Korea. Tap water service rate and the number of pharmacies, which affect the incidence rate of ...

IJCRI – International Journal of Case Reports and Images, Vol. 2, No. 3, March 2011. ISSN – [0976-3198] ABSTRACT Introduction: Typhoid fever is a common infectious disease worldwide, especially in developing countries. Typhoid fever presenting as nephritis is rare. The common renal complications of typhoid fever are pyelonephritis and cystitis. Patients with typhoid glomerulonephritis may prese...