We evaluated the reliability of a passive bacterial agglutination test to detect Salmonella typhi somatic antigen(s) in the sera of patients with typhoid fever. It was positive in 32 of 33 bacteriologically proven typhoid fever cases. Among 13 patients with a presumptive diagnosis of typhoid fever, 11 were positive by passive bacterial agglutination. The serum of one patient with paratyphoid A ...

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 thi...

BACKGROUND The bacterium Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi causes typhoid fever, which is typically associated with fever and abdominal pain. An outbreak of typhoid fever in Malawi-Mozambique in 2009 was notable for a high proportion of neurologic illness. OBJECTIVE Describe neurologic features complicating typhoid fever during an outbreak in Malawi-Mozambique METHODS Persons meeting a clin...

Typhoid fever is a systemic life-threatening infection caused by the bacterium Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi occurring more frequently in underdeveloped regions of the world due to overcrowding and poor sanitation. Initiation of appropriate therapy decreases severity and clinical outcome of the disease which requires early and accurate diagnosis. Pathogenesis due to typhoid leads to variou...

Purpose: The study was conducted to survey the knowledge and behavioural practices of food handlers in bukas (a type of local restaurant) in Nigeria with the aim of assessing the hygiene practices of food handlers and whether they were knowledgeable about typhoid fever and its mode of transmission. Methods: One hundred and seventy four (174) Respondents were administered questionnaires on their...

Typhoid is a severe, contagious and life-threatening disease associated with fever that is most often caused by the typhoid bacillus, Salmonella enterica, serovar Typhus. Typhoid fever is transmitted by ingestion of food, including dairy products, or water contaminated by excreta from patients or chronic by infected persons. It mostly affects school-age children. In adults and older people, typ...

Typhoid is a food-borne fatal disease caused by Salmonella typhi. It causes inflammation of the intestine, resulting in diarrhoea, fever, headache, cough, and muscle pain. Improved hygiene has resulted marked decline typhoid fever cases many developed countries. However, significant emerge low middle-income countries annually, including Pakistan. accounts for larger percentage acute febrile ill...

Salmonella Typhi is an exclusive human pathogen that causes typhoid fever. Typhoid toxin is a S. Typhi virulence factor that can reproduce most of the typhoid fever symptoms in experimental animals. Toxicity depends on toxin binding to terminally sialylated glycans on surface glycoproteins. Human glycans are unusual because of the lack of CMAH, which in other mammals converts N-acetylneuraminic...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Ileal perforation is a serious complication of typhoid fever. The exact reasons for the development of perforation in only a few of those infected with Salmonella Typhi is unknown, and it is likely that immunological factors are involved. Therefore we undertook this study to compare the antibody profile in patients with uncomplicated typhoid fever with those having ileal ...