In August 2000, the Ohio Department of Health reported a cluster of men with typhoid fever who denied having traveled abroad. To determine the cause and the extent of the outbreak, an epidemiological investigation was initiated in which 7 persons in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana with culture-confirmed Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi infection and 2 persons with probable typhoid fever were eval...

OBJECTIVES The present study was designed to analyze the clinical profile and antibiotic sensitivity pattern in the cases of culture positive typhoid fever. METHOD The study was conducted over a period of 1 year. Total of 46 culture positive cases of Typhoid fever were included in the study. The sensitivity pattern of isolates from blood culture was recorded. The modes of presentation, clinic...

Human beings are the only reservoir and host for typhoid fever, caused by Salmonella typhi and less commonly S. paratyphi B and S.paratyphiA. Typhoid fever is a serious disease occurring in many developing countries. It kills young adults at the beginning of their productive years, these people frequently are the main wage earners in the family which further magnifies the socioeconomic impact o...

Background: Typhoid fever is a significant health problem in many countries. Globally, it estimated that 21 million toddlers suffer from this disease each year. 
 Purpose: This research aimed to analyze the relationship between handling body temperature and diet on length of stay for typhoid among toddlers.
 Methods: was cross-sectional study design. The population were 87 with Lepo-L...

This review focuses on the reports of salmonellosis by investigators in different parts of Ethiopia, in particular focusing on the levels of typhoid fever. Many of the reports are published in local journals that are not available online. There have been seven studies which diagnosed typhoid fever by laboratory culture and there is no coordinated epidemiological surveillance. All conducted rese...

Typhoid, a common worldwide bacterial disease which is spread through contaminated food and water that causes septicemia, a causes liver inflammation. Typhoid fever is an infection that causes clinical symptoms of fever, abdominal pain, body rashes, terry stool, weakness, poor appetite, headaches, generalized aches and pains, and lethargy etc [1].It is caused by Salmonellae typhi, Enterobacteri...

Efforts to estimate the global burden of typhoid fever can be traced to a meeting of the Pan American Health Organization in 1984 and publication of the outcome in 1986.1 Although an important first step, the 1984 study was recognised as having a number of limitations including provision of scanty methodological detail, the availability of few source data, exclusion of China from the estimate, ...

Typhoid fever is caused by the gram-negative bacillus Salmonella typhi (S. typhi), and it is an important public health problem in developing countries.1 Typhoid fever is endemic in those parts of world where sanitation is poor.2 Perforation of the bowel from typhoid fever is a serious abdominal complication, which continues to be the most frequent cause of its highmorbidity andmortality.3 Term...

Typhoid fever is caused by gram-negative organism Salmonella typhi. The usual presentation is high-grade fever, but complications like gastrointestinal (GI) hemorrhage and perforation are also seen frequently. With the advent of antibiotics, these complications are rarely seen now. We present a case of a young female who was admitted with a diagnosis of typhoid fever presented with a massive GI...