HYDROGEN PEROXIDE AS A GERMICIDE IN TYPHOID FEVER.

HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME IN TYPHOID FEVER AND BRUCELLOSIS

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...

A Critical Analysis of the Management of Typhoid Fever (TF) in a Tertiary care hospital

Enteric fever is endemic in many parts of the third world. In India, it is the fifth most common infectious disease. With increasing resistance to fluoroquinolones and re-emergence of chloramphenicol , the policy of empirical treatment of TF needs to be rationalized.   To compare the prescription     pattern    for two successive years. To study the change in...

Typhoid fever as cellular microbiological model.

The knowledge about typhoid fever pathogenesis is growing in the last years, mainly about the cellular and molecular phenomena that are responsible by clinical manifestations of this disease. In this article are discussed several recent discoveries, as follows: a) Bacterial type III protein secretion system; b) The five virulence genes of Salmonella spp. that encoding Sips (Salmonella invasion ...

Typhoid Fever and Typhoid Carriers

Typhoid as a Common Continued Fever of Natives in Calcutta

Although cases, which we now recognise to have been typhoid, were described by the older writers such as Annesley and Twining, yet it was not until the year 1854 that the writings of Scriven1 showed that true typhoid occurred in India among Europeans, while only two years later Ewart2 independently described the disease in natives in the Ajmere Jail. In 1805 Ewart's collection of pathological s...