The agglutinins of typhoid carriers

Typhoid Fever and Typhoid Carriers

The Effect of Exercise on the Production of Typhoid Agglutinins *

The effects of exercise and of fatigue upon a variety of physiological responses in laboratory animals have been described by many authors, but few have extended the study to include the phenomenon of antibody responses in rabbits. An investigation of this question forms the basis of this note. That fatigue, or the attendant phenomena, decreases the susceptibility of the rat to subcutaneously i...

Ampicillin Treatment of Typhoid Carriers.

THE change in the clinical course of typhoid fever due to treatment with chloramphenicol has been one of the more dramatic triumphs of the antibiotic age. A prolonged fever has been converted into a short sharp febrile illness, so that the patient suffering from the disease, instead of being dangerously ill for several weeks, may well be sitting up in bed after three or four days on chloramphen...

Detection of typhoid carriers by agglutination tests.

Use of the Vi agglutination test in the detection of chronic carriers of Salmonella typhi (S. typhosa) first was suggested by Felix et al. (1935). Since that time study of the test by many workers has resulted in the accumulation of a voluminous literature which has been reviewed by Klein (1943), Felix (1951), Landy and Lamb (1953), and Spaun (1957). Bhatnagar et al. (1938) recommended the use ...

Treatment of chronic typhoid carriers with ampicillin.

Ten chronic enteric typhoid carriers treated with oral ampicillin have been followed for 4 to 9 years and no relapses have occurred. Patients are probably cured if relapse does not occur within 2 years.