Typhoid fever and Salmonellosis in Indonesia

Typhoid Fever and Invasive Nontyphoid Salmonellosis, Malawi and South Africa

To determine the prevalence of invasive nontyphoid salmonellosis and typhoid fever in Malawi and South Africa, we compared case frequency and patient age distribution. Invasive nontyphoid salmonellosis showed a clear bimodal age distribution; the infection developed in women at a younger age than in men. Case frequency for typhoid fever was lower than for salmonellosis.

Risk factors for typhoid and paratyphoid fever in Jakarta, Indonesia.

CONTEXT The proportion of paratyphoid fever cases to typhoid fever cases may change due to urbanization and increased dependency on food purchased from street vendors. For containment of paratyphoid a different strategy may be needed than for typhoid, because risk factors for disease may not coincide and current typhoid vaccines do not protect against paratyphoid fever. OBJECTIVE To determine...

HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME IN TYPHOID FEVER AND BRUCELLOSIS

Hemophagocytic syndrome is a non-malignant process that is characterized clinically by fever, hepatomegaly, splenomegaly, pancytopenia in peripheral blood, and reactive histiocytes in the bone marrow. Bacterial infectious diseases like typhoid fever and brucellosis and viral infections including CMV, herpes viruses, and Epstein-Barr virus are diagnosed as the cause of this syndrome. In thi...

Typhoid Fever and Typhoid Carriers

hemophagocytic syndrome in typhoid fever and brucellosis

hemophagocytic syndrome is a non-malignant process that is characterized clinically by fever, hepatomegaly, splenomegaly, pancytopenia in peripheral blood, and reactive histiocytes in the bone marrow. bacterial infectious diseases like typhoid fever and brucellosis and viral infections including cmv, herpes viruses, and epstein-barr virus are diagnosed as the cause of this syndrome. in this pap...