OBSCURE ALLIANCES OF TYPHOID.

Obscure Irregular Continued Fevers of the "Typhoid" Group

subject may be taken to leave no doubt that natives of this country not only do get the disease, going through the usual clinical course, but also that the nature of the disease can be verified both bacteriologically and when occasion arises by the examination of the enteric lesions post-mortem. Dr. Childein a paper1 read before this Society in 1902 brought forward conclusive evidence to show t...

Strong Alliances in Graphs

For any simple connected graph $G=(V,E)$, a defensive alliance is a subset $S$ of $V$ satisfying the condition that every vertex $vin S$ has at most one more neighbour in $V-S$ than it has in $S$. The minimum cardinality of any defensive alliance in $G$ is called the alliance number of $G$, denoted $a(G)$. In this paper, we introduce a new type of alliance number called $k$-strong alliance numb...

Typhoid Fever and Typhoid Carriers

Etiology of Obscure Fever

Obscure fever is not an uncommon problem in Thailand. We studied 25 children with obscure fever admitted to Srinagarind (university) Hospital in Northeast Thailand. The etiology was identified in 52% of the cases: dengue (40%), leptospirosis (8%), and micrococcus septicemia (4%). Two cases with primary dengue infection developed dengue shock syndrome. The case with leptospirosis developed infec...

Diagnosis of Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleeding

Obscure gastrointestinal bleeding (OGIB) is defined as gastrointestinal bleeding from a source that cannot be identified on upper or lower gastrointestinal endoscopy. OGIB is considered an important indication for capsule endoscopy (CE). CE is particularly useful for the detection of vascular and small ulcerative lesions, conditions frequently associated with OGIB, particularly in Western count...