TREATMENT OF MEDICAL COMPLICATIONS OF TYPHOID FEVER.

Unusual complications of typhoid fever.

Case l.V.S. a 31 year-old female, was admitted to Harare Central Hospital with a three-day history of headache, vomiting and confusion. Prior to this she had noticed generalized abdominal pains for four days. Physical examination revealed that she was pyrexial (39.8°C), pale but not icteric. The pulse rate was 138/min. with a BP of 130/70 mmHg. The heart was normal. The abdomen was diffusely te...

The Treatment of Typhoid Fever

Evaluation of Treatment of Typhoid Fever

Many attempts have been made in the past to discover an ideal treatment for typhoid fever. The first promising attempt in this direction was made by McSweeney in 1946 who published reports of 5 cases of typhoid fever treated with large doses of penicillin and sulphathiazole (McSweeney, 1946). Earlier in the same year Bigger (1946) had observed that the growth of Salmonella typhi in cultures was...

Streptomycin in the treatment of typhoid and para-typhoid fever.

quer the disease, because of its wide bacillary spectrum and, especially of the powerful activity on the growth of Eberthella typhosa in vitro. The results of the most reliable record by Keefer and others on 51 cases of typhoid fever were however disappointing, in which cases were treated with a large does of streptomycin. Since then, workers in this field seem to have abandoned to repeat simil...

Serum Treatment in Typhoid Fever

The resistance to typhoid seen in the native? the " plains native " at any rate?attracts at outset here, but the troop of explanations that would be required in even touching that subject, warns one off. Moreover, " a certain dgards, it semble que les progres de la science contemporaine ont fourni plus d'explications qu'ils n'ont apporte d'acquisitions nouvelles." A Charrin, Revue d'liygiene, N...