An Unusual Focus of B. Typhosus Infection
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A Mohammedan male, aged 43, was admitted into the Medical College Hospital with the complaints of slight irregular fever and heart trouble. The case was labelled in the ward as " chronic malaria with mitral stenosis." He was having the usual treatment. After about a fortnight in the hospital he complained of a painful swelling in the scrotum and on examination the scrotum was found to be inflamed. On aspiration, pus came out and bacteriological examination of the sample of pus yielded a pure growth of B. typhosus. The patient was operated on and another culture was made from the operation wound which corroborated the previous finding. Widal reaction of the patient's serum gave a strong positive reaction against B. typhosus. B. typhosus was also recovered from both fseces and urine.
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