245 patients with typhoid fever were admitted in university of isfahan medical centers during the last 4 years are reported here in this study. the diagnosis was confirmed in each case by the history of the exposure physical examination, widal seroreaction and blood culture test. the highest incidence of the disease occurred between 10-19 years of age, and mostly in summer months, during june, ...

an individual is rare and can present as a challenging diagnosis to any medical professional. Dengue, leptospirosis, malaria, and viral hepatitis, have many overlapping clinical symptoms making it difficult to diagnose them together. A series of case reports have been published on various coinfections with dengue in an individual. Coinfection of dengue with leptospira, malaria, hepatitis A, hep...

background and objective: the diagnosis of typhoid fever in children is a challenge due to the non-specific clinical picture. the current role of the widal test for diagnosis in developing countries has not been clear. materials and methods: charts were reviewed on all children ≤ 15 years of age discharged from 5 pediatric teaching hospitals in tehran from 1991 to 2004 with a diagnosis of typho...

In the summer of 2000, an outbreak of endemic typhoid fever involved 6 people in Queens, NY, and a seventh person in Manhattan, NY. An investigation by the New York City Department of Health traced the likely source to an immigrant employee working at a local restaurant. The clinical presentations of 4 cases seen at New York Hospital Queens, Flushing, a 500-bed hospital, mimicked viral hepatiti...

Background: Typhoid fever is caused by salmonella typhi which invades the bloodstream causes systemic involvement & different complications. This study was designed to evaluate complications of typhoid in children admitted a tertiary care hospital. Methodology: retrospective cross-sectional conducted at Dr. M R Khan Shishu Hospital ICH, over twelve months from July 2019 June 2020 100 aged 6...

BACKGROUND Typhoid fever is endemic in Karachi, with an incidence among children ranging from 170 to 450 per 100,000 child-years. Vaccination strategies are important for prevention, and the Vi capsular polysaccharide (ViCPS) vaccine has been shown to be effective in reducing the burden of typhoid fever. METHODS A cluster randomized trial was conducted in three low socioeconomic urban squatte...

BACKGROUND Acute liver failure (ALF) is a condition with rapid deterioration of liver function resulting in hepatic encephalopathy and/or coagulopathy in patients with previously normal liver. Complicated forms of certain infectious diseases like falciparum malaria, leptospirosis, dengue fever, ricketsial fever, typhoid fever, haemophagocytosis, herpes simplex virus, cytomegalovirus, tuberculos...

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Introduction: The number of travellers from Greece who travel to sub-Saharan Africa has increased during the last decade. Our aim in this research was to study vaccination patterns for travellers travelling to sub-Saharan Africa.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted from January 2011 until December 2014 in all (57) public health departments in Gr...