enteric fever is endemic in many parts of the third world. in india, it is the fifth most common infectious disease. with increasing resistance to fluoroquinolones and re-emergence of chloramphenicol , the policy of empirical treatment of tf needs to be rationalized.   to compare the prescription     pattern    for two successive years. to study the change in trend in the prescription pattern. ...

Enteric fever is endemic in many parts of the third world. In India, it is the fifth most common infectious disease. With increasing resistance to fluoroquinolones and re-emergence of chloramphenicol , the policy of empirical treatment of TF needs to be rationalized.   To compare the prescription     pattern    for two successive years. To study the change in...

as negative even up to the 30th day of illness, and positive thereafter at 1 : 100 or higher dilution. The negative agglutination test in this case appears to have been observed about the 17th day of illness. Tice, in his Practice of Medicine (1927), Vol. IV, p. 503. says that " while a positive result is highly presumptive of typhoid, a negative finding has no significance." There is a tempera...

A 21-year-old male presented with pain in the right thigh of insidious onset and 3 months' duration. He had a history of febrile illness lasting for 15 days, 2 months prior to the onset of pain. Examination revealed swelling over the lower lateral aspect of the right thigh with some induration and tenderness. Initial X-rays of the right femur and the computed tomography scan at 10 weeks after t...

BSTRACT nteric fever is endemic in many parts of the third world. In India, it is the fifth most common infectious isease. With increasing resistance to fluoroquinolones and re-emergence of chloramphenicol, the policy f empirical treatment of typhoid fever (TF) needs to be rationalized. This study was carried out to comare the prescription pattern of typhoid fever for two successive years, to s...

INTRODUCTION Typhoid fever is endemic in Egypt; and quinolones are the empirical treatment of choice. There are very limited data reporting quinolone resistance among Egyptian typhoidal Salmonella isolates. We previously reported that all typhoidal Salmonella were sensitive to quinolones. This study aimed to isolate and identify typhoidal Salmonella from cases suffering from enteric fever at Mi...

INTRODUCTION There is an urgent need for affordable point-of-care diagnostics for the differentiation of febrile illnesses and the confirmation of typhoid in endemic countries. METHODOLOGY Blood samples were collected from febrile patients with clinical suspicion of typhoid and screened for typhoid fever using the Widal and Typhi Dri Dot tests, while stool and blood samples were screened for ...

Abstract Background The incidence of typhoid fever is increasing in Egypt. Widal test the evaluation most widely used Egypt for diagnosis, but it has many drawbacks; therefore, new diagnostic tools are needed. Our aim was to evaluate accuracy onsite IgG/IgM combo rapid diagnosing fever. Method Blood specimens were collected from 90 patients (of all ages) who presented with more than 4 days’ dur...

AIM To determine clinical, and therapeutic characteristics, and antibiotic susceptibility test results for typhoid fever. METHODS A retrospective study using data from medical records of all typhoid fever subjects which is confirmed by blood culture positive for S. typhi or S. paratyphi. This study was performed to determine clinical, laboratory, and therapeutic characteristics. Statistical a...