A Case of Continued Fever Due to Salmonella (Bacterium) Enteritidis (Gaertner)

Clinical features Patient Gopi Chand, aged 5, Hindu male child (Burma evacuee), was admitted into the Mayo Hospital on 2nd July, 1942, on the 11th day of his illness with continued fever. On his way to India he had fever for a few days, of unknown nature. The fever subsided and the temperature remained normal for about six days but again started to rise and the patient was admitted into a hospital at Calcutta ; he was discharged after 10 days. After remaining afebrile for about a fortnight he started having fever again and was admitted into the Mayo Hospital, Lahore, on the 10th day of the present illness and was discharged on the 24th day. He had continued remittent fever of enteric type (see chart).