Profile of Culture Positive Enteric Fever from Bangalore

Clinical profile and therapy in enteric fever.

therapy in resistant enteric fever, various drugs singly, or in combination, such as cotrimoxazole and cephalosporins, or cephalexin and gentamicin, third generation cephalosporins and newer quinolones have been tried with varying results. This communication describes our observations on the clinical profile of children with enteric fever due to MDRST infection and, compare different drug regim...

Enteric fever--a changing sensitivity pattern, clinical profile and outcome.

With the changing pattern of bacterial infection and their sensitivity trends, pediatricians throughout the world are facing a challenging problem in day to day practice(l). The recent upsurge in multidrug resistant S. typhi infection, has made the treatment of enteric fever a difficult and controversial problem(l,2). The second line therapy suggested for drug resistant typhoid fever has also p...

Study of Clinical Profile and Antibiotic Sensitivity Pattern in Culture-positive Typhoid Fever Cases

OBJECTIVES The present study was designed to analyze the clinical profile and antibiotic sensitivity pattern in the cases of culture positive typhoid fever. METHOD The study was conducted over a period of 1 year. Total of 46 culture positive cases of Typhoid fever were included in the study. The sensitivity pattern of isolates from blood culture was recorded. The modes of presentation, clinic...

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