TWO CASES OF HAEMORRHAGIC PARATYPHOID FEVER

Paratyphoid C Fever

Dengue haemorrhagic fever in pregnancy: Appraisal on Thai cases.

Dengue infection is a major public health problem, affecting children worldwide particularly in the southeast Asia region. Up to 2 to 3 epidemics of dengue per year have been reported1. The classical form of this infection has an incubation period of 5–8 days following by the onset of fever, violent headache, chill and rash developing after 3–4 days. The fever usually lasts 4–7 days and most pe...

Paratyphoid Fever: Splicing the Global Analyses

The incidence of enteric fever caused by Salmonella enterica serovar Paratyphi A (S. Paratyphi A) is increasing in many parts of the world. Although there is no major outbreak of paratyphoid fever in recent years, S. Paratyphi A infection still remains a public health problem in many tropical countries. Therefore, surveillance studies play an important role in monitoring infections and the emer...

Reply: Surveillance of Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever in Pakistan

[No Abstract] To the editor: In a recent publication entitle “Surveillance of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever in Pakistan”  published in “The Lancet Infectious Diseases”, the authors claimed that before the Eid al-Adha, Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF)-livestock infected are imported from Iran and Afghanistan to Baluchistan province of Pakistan and then tran...

Dengue haemorrhagic fever

Factors increasing the risk of DHF outbreaks The occurrence of DHF outbreaks is linked to a number of factors, including the density of mosquito vectors, particularly that of Aedes aegypti. The precise population density of Ae. aegypti that is needed to sustain dengue virus transmission epidemically or endemically has yet to be determined, but experience in Singapore in recent years suggests th...