Typhoid Fever in Northern Ireland

Q fever in Northern Ireland.

All the patients showed emotional symptoms reactive to stress. Intermittent delirious or subdelirious reactions were seen and the patients often showed evidence of increased cerebral dysfunction during or just after dialysis. Assessment of mental status and previous personality was of value in understanding the responses to the illness and its treatment. The role of the nursing staff is crucial...

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...

Clinical Q fever in Northern Ireland 1962-1989.

Q fever was diagnosed in 443 patients in Northern Ireland between 1962 and 1989. From 1986 onwards there was an increase, which peaked in 1989 with 107 cases of whom 47 were infected in Ballycastle, Co Antrim. There were three outbreaks and 21 clusters of patients with Q fever. Most cases were in April and May which correlated with the peak lambing and calving season. Q fever mainly affected ma...

Epidemiology of clinical Q fever in Northern Ireland.

IRELAND was once thought to be free of Q fever (Kaplan and Bertagna, 1955). An investigation of patients, abattoir workers, veterinary surgeons, farm workers and farm animals in Northern Ireland showed that Q fever was present and entered the country sometime between April 1957 and February 1962 when the first known clinical case occurred (Connolly, 1968). In the Republic of Ireland a survey wa...

Typhoid Fever and Typhoid Carriers