A case of typhoid fever with colestatic hepatitis is described, with diagnosis made by stool culture. Examination for malaria, leptospirosis and viral hepatitis were all negatives. These results and the rapid response of the patient to treatment with ciprofloxacin confirmed the diagnosis of typhoid fever and indicate the importance of considering typhoid fever in cases of fever with jaundice.

BACKGROUND The gold standard for diagnosis of typhoid fever is blood culture (BC). Because blood culture is often not available in impoverished settings it would be helpful to have alternative diagnostic approaches. We therefore investigated the usefulness of clinical signs, WHO case definition and Widal test for the diagnosis of typhoid fever. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Participants with...

b a c k g r o u n d  & aim: this study aimed  to estimate  and project  the current  and future disability burden of typhoid fever in iran associated with climate and population to provide best policies for climate change adaptation. methods & materials: years lost due to disabilities (ylds) were measured as burden estimation in this study. the temperature was selected as climate variable. futu...

The aim of this study was to characterize the effect of typhoid fever on pharmacokinetic parameters of levofloxacin (LF) and compare the pharmacokinetic parameters of the said antibiotic in healthy human volunteers and patients with typhoid fever. Total of 12 subjects were divided into two groups “A” (healthy volunteers) and “B” (typhoid patients). Single oral dose of LF 500 mg was given and 5 ...

Sir.?With reference to the report in your journal of March 1947 of a case of typhoid fever, complicated by Parkinsonism, I wish to draw your attention to the following points :? To me, the case looks one of typhoid with signs of meningeal irritation, the points in favour of the latter being 1. Muscular rigidity, 2. Positive ICernig's and Brudzinski's signs, and 3. C.S.F. findings, namely increa...

OBJECTIVE To use new data to make a revised estimate of the global burden of typhoid fever, an accurate understanding of which is necessary to guide public health decisions for disease control and prevention efforts. METHODS Population-based studies using confirmation by blood culture of typhoid fever cases were sought by computer search of the multilingual scientific literature. Where there ...

Typhoid vaccination is recommended in the United States before travel to countries where typhoid fever is endemic, though little information is available on its effectiveness in travelers. We estimated typhoid vaccination effectiveness (VE) by comparing vaccination status in cases of typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever (Salmonella Paratyphi A infection, against which typhoid vaccine offers no p...

resistant and nalidixic acid resistant typhoid fever. 3 4 Running title: Azithromycin and ofloxacin in typhoid fever 5 6

We conducted a prospective, inpatient fever study in malaria-endemic Papua, Indonesia to determine nonmalaria fever etiologies. Investigations included malaria blood films, blood culture, paired serologic samples analysis for dengue, Japanese encephalitis, leptospirosis, scrub typhus, murine typhus, and spotted fever group rickettsia. During 1997– 2000, 226 patients (127 males and 99 females) 1...

We conducted a prospective, inpatient fever study in malaria-endemic Papua, Indonesia to determine non-malaria fever etiologies. Investigations included malaria blood films, blood culture, paired serologic samples analysis for dengue, Japanese encephalitis, leptospirosis, scrub typhus, murine typhus, and spotted fever group rickettsia. During 1997-2000, 226 patients (127 males and 99 females) 1...