Enteric fever in young Yoruba children.

Enteric fever in young Yoruba children.

Ninety-seven Nigerian children under 5 years of age had typhoid or paratyphoid fever proved by blood culture. The presented with fever, anaemia, gastrointestinal or neurological disturbances, and typhoid and paratyphoid appeared clinically indistinguishible. In this holoendemic malarial area, malaria was the most important differential diagnosis, and may have contributed to the concomitant anae...

Cefixime in the treatment of enteric fever in children.

Cefixime in a dose 20 mg/kg/day, orally, divided into two doses 12 h apart for a minimum of 12 days, was administered to 50 children with proven S. typhi septicaemia. Forty four of the patients were infected with strains of S. typhi resistant to multiple antibiotics including chloramphenicol, ampicillin and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole. All patients responded rapidly to treatment and were cure...

Enteric Fever

ENTERIC FEVER. By Thomas O'Farrell, M.A., M.D., Surgeon, A. 31. D. That enteric fever is prevalent in India, especially among those who have recently changed their residence from England to this country, is a well-recognized fact, yet here, as well as at home, a variety of opinions are held as to the causation and propagation of the disease. <Ve have the great contagionist, "William Badd, asser...

Enteric Fever

Enteric Fever in Natives

In B. the bowels were loose on the 4th and 5th day. From the 7th to the 14th day the stools were passed unconsciously. In C. there was constipation for a few days. On the 7th the bowels were open twice. On 12th stool thin with whitish deposit. In D. on the 6th and 7th days two stools, on the lltli day two stools. In E. one thin yellowish stool on the 5th day. From this it will be seen that diar...