A TYPHOID CARRIER

Vesical Calculus in a Urinary Typhoid Carrier

The bacterial causation of urinary calculi is well recognised in the so-called secondary stones such as the triple phosphates-In these cases the bacteria split up the urea, turning the urifle

Treatment of the Typhoid Carrier State with Chloramphenicol *

The efficacy of chloramphenicol: in the treatment of acute typhoid fever is well established.84' 9 l0'1 18 However, treatment of the typhoid carrier state with this antibiotic, for varying periods of time and at dosage levels generally accepted as high, has been unsatisfactory.2 Untoward reactions have also been reported,' 2,6 of which anorexia, nausea, and a bitter taste in the mouth were the ...

A Milk Borne Epidemic of Typhoid Fever Traced to a Urinary Carrier.

The Application of Modern Techniques to the Detection of a Typhoid Carrier

IHE search for satisfactory methods of isolation of Salmonella typhi and Salmonella paratyphi B from water, contaminated with sewage, was greatly advanced when Wilson and Blair (1927) introduced their glucose-sulphite-iron-bismuth brilliant green medium. Further help came with the development of the selenite F medium of Hobbs and Allison (1945a). The next great advance was the description by Mo...

Typhoid Fever and Typhoid Carriers