Typhoid fever is a systemic illness that often presents with fever, abdominal pain, and diarrhea. There are multiple complications associated typhoid which includes intestinal perforation, gastrointestinal hemorrhage, hepatitis, anemia. In recent years, new extensively drug resistant (XDR) strain of Salmonella typhi (S. typhi) emerged, higher incidence complications, responding to azithromycin ...

BACKGROUND While typhoid fever is common in our environment, presentation with jaundice is unusual. The aim of this study has been to determine the clinical and laboratory features that allow early diagnosis of typhoid fever in patients that present with jaundice and differentiate it from other common causes of fever and jaundice in the tropics. MATERIALS AND METHODS This prospective study wa...

Simultaneous occurrence of multiple diseases is unusual but not rare. We are reporting an unusual combination of Typhoid fever and viral hepatitis in a G6PD deficient individual.

typhoid fever is endemic in iran. isolation of s. typhi is a gold standard for diagnosis. laboratory diagnosis of s. typhi infection relies on serological tests such as the widal test. this study describes seroprevalence of to and th antibody in nonfebrile healthy and febrile with non-typhoid illness. for detection of sensitivity and specificity of widal test in typhoidal fever diagnosing widal...

AIM To determine clinical, and therapeutic characteristics, and antibiotic susceptibility test results for typhoid fever. METHODS A retrospective study using data from medical records of all typhoid fever subjects which is confirmed by blood culture positive for S. typhi or S. paratyphi. This study was performed to determine clinical, laboratory, and therapeutic characteristics. Statistical a...

In the management of patients with enteric fever it has been seen that improvement in the general condition and appetite of the patient are the initial signs of recovery and the last thing to respond is the fever. The duration of fever in uncomplicated cases of enteric fever is approximately 4-5 days. But in cases where there is coinfection or complication the duration may get prolonged. The sa...

We present this rare occurrence of a 17 yr old boy, a known case of congenital hypoparathyroidism, who presented with fever and jaundice for 8 days and 2 episodes of generalised tonic-clonic seizures. Premorbidly patient was on regular oral calcium supplementations with normal serum calcium levels. Investigations revealed severe hypocalcaemia (3.2 mg/dL), low 25 hydroxyvitamin D levels and hypo...

OBJECTIVES To estimate the costs and benefits of prophylaxis against travel acquired malaria, typhoid fever, and hepatitis A in United Kingdom residents during 1991. DESIGN Retrospective analysis of national epidemiological and economic data. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Incidence of travel associated infections in susceptible United Kingdom residents per visit; costs of prophylaxis provision from...