Chloromycetin in Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever

Streptomycin in the treatment of typhoid and para-typhoid fever.

quer the disease, because of its wide bacillary spectrum and, especially of the powerful activity on the growth of Eberthella typhosa in vitro. The results of the most reliable record by Keefer and others on 51 cases of typhoid fever were however disappointing, in which cases were treated with a large does of streptomycin. Since then, workers in this field seem to have abandoned to repeat simil...

Chloromycetin in Typhoid

Chloromycetin in Typhoid

Splenic infarction and spontaneous rupture in a patient with paratyphoid.

Paratyphoid is caused by Salmonella enterica serotype paratyphi A, B or C. There are only subtle clinical differences between the typhoid and paratyphoid but there is no difference between the response to therapy or frequency of complications [1]. Splenic infarction is an identified complication of typhoid and paratyphoid [2, 3]. However, there are only a few reports of spontaneous splenic rupt...

Effectiveness of typhoid vaccination in US travelers.

Typhoid vaccination is recommended in the United States before travel to countries where typhoid fever is endemic, though little information is available on its effectiveness in travelers. We estimated typhoid vaccination effectiveness (VE) by comparing vaccination status in cases of typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever (Salmonella Paratyphi A infection, against which typhoid vaccine offers no p...