Enteric Fever Treatment Failures: A Global Concern

Enteric fever treatment failures: a global concern.

with reference to programs a hundred years ago, when contemporary pesticides and biological and cultural controls did not exist and the tools of mosquito control were limited to such measures as deep-ditch draining of wetlands in New Jersey, clear-cutting, and use of arsenic compounds and crude petroleum for larval control. Deep-ditch draining was also practiced long ago in other states, such a...

Enteric Fever Treatment Failures — Reply to Drs . Chandel and Chaudhry

resistance attributable to efflux has been reported in a number of gram-negative species, including Salmonella and Pseudomonas. Strains expressing efflux mechanisms leading to fluoroquinolone resistance are cross-resistant to a number of structurally unrelated antimicrobial agents, permitting multidrug resistance to develop (6). Therefore, inhibition of efflux systems as targets of therapeutic ...

Review Article Treatment of Enteric Fever

Enteric fever is systemic illness caused by Salmonella Typhi and Salmonella Paratyphi A, B and C. It is believed to be a readily treatable illness by many clinicians in the developing world where it is endemic; however, with the emergence of drug resistance to fluoroquinolones, treatment is becoming increasingly difficult. While drugs such as cefixime, previously believed to be effective, have ...

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