Palatal palsy in enteric fever.

Enteric fever still continue to be rampant in our country. Despite the availability of effective antimicrobials, it is still associated with a fairly high incidence of serious complications. Aphasia, acute cerebellar ataxia, perceptive nerve deafness, Guillian Barre syndrome, toxic encephalopathy, transverse myelitis and optic neuritis are known neurological complications of enteric fever(l). Suri et al. reported a case of Salmonella typhi meningitis with facial nerve palsy which occurred in early part of illness(2). However, isolated palatal palsy is very rare. Kamal et al. reported one case of palatal paralysis in enteric fever earlier(3). To the best of our knowledge no other such case has been reported so far. We present a similar case because of its rarity.