Typhoid fever is one of the most common febrile illnesses encountered by the physicians in Bangladesh. Diagnosis is not difficult but has lately become a challenge due to changed clinical pattern of the disease, lack of adequate facilities for blood, stool, urine culture, excessive reliance on nonspecific Widal test and non availability of any reliable rapid diagnostic tests. Further, the indis...

BACKGROUND Ocular and extraocular immune-mediated phenomena are known to occur following febrile illness. Vasculitis, retinitis and neurosensory detachment are not well-recognized sequelae of typhoid fever. FINDINGS We report a case of vasculitis, retinitis and macular neurosensory detachment presenting post typhoid fever. A 27-year-old female presented with decreased vision in right eye with...

I believe that there are very few* physicians indeed of any experience in India who do not now believe that, in this country bs in England, we meet with cases of genuine typhoid fever. Since Seriven, Ewart, and others wrote on the subject, it has frequently been recognized and described. I have myself seen, at the Ilill Sanitarium from which I now write (MussoorieJ, a good many undoubted cases ...

One thousand nine hundred and twenty individuals admitted to the general teaching hospital in Balad City, suffer from abdominal pain, fever, a headache nausea. Acute chronic Typhoid-patients caused by S.typhi were diagnosed according positive blood stool culture respectively, using serological test IgG/ IgM. Out of total 1920 individuals, we documented 312 typhoid-patients S.typhi; 209(67%) urb...

It is only of late years that enteric fever was known to exist in India, and, since its discovery, it lias become too much the fashion to call by the name of " typhoid" every case of continued fever lasting more than four or five days, setting down the absence of nil and every characteristic symptom of typhoid to modification by climate. Nearly all the cases hitherto reported have occurred in E...

determination of drug resistance rate, as a new major problem in patients with typhoid fever is inevitable for treatment of the disease. in a cross-sectional study, during march 1994 till february 1995, a total of 39 patients with typhoid fever admitted to dept. of infections diseases, emam khomeini hospital, and were examined for the rate of resistance to routine drugs usually used for treatme...

BACKGROUND Upcoming vaccination efforts against typhoid fever require an assessment of the baseline burden of disease in countries at risk. There are no typhoid incidence data from most low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), so model-based estimates offer insights for decision-makers in the absence of readily available data. METHODS We developed a mixed-effects model fit to data from 32 po...

Liver involvement in typhoid fever is uncommon. Typhoid hepatitis is now being recognized as a definite entity. Over a period of 4 years, we have observed 10 cases (4.8%) of typhoid hepatitis out of 210 cases of typhoid fever. Jaundice, anaemia, hepatomegaly and abnormal biochemical tests were present in all cases. Liver biopsy was done in 8 cases and was found to be abnormal in 5. Two of the 1...

The paper describes the first reported case of multifocal choroiditis following simultaneous hepatitis-A, typhoid, and yellow fever vaccinations. A 33-year-old male developed sudden onset of flashing lights and floaters in his right eye 3 weeks following hepatitis A, typhoid, and yellow fever vaccinations. Fundus examination and angiography confirmed the presence of multiple peripheral choriore...