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...

Patients comprising of five hundred and sixty-nine (569) males and nine hundred and ten (910) females who attended primary health care units from the Northern Edumoga, Southern Edumoga (Ugbokolo) and Okpoga/Ichama areas were screened for Salmonella typhi and Salmonella paratyphi over a period of nine months, using slide agglutination and stool culture techniques. The organisms isolated from inf...

In spite of the constant reiteration in almost every publication on typhoid fever that bacteriological examination of the blood is the diagnostic method of choice in the early stage of the disease, coupled with the steady stream of post-war publications emphasizing the uselessness of the Widal test at this time, it is remarkable how many requests for the latter are still made as the primary tes...

Background and Objective: Typhoid fever is still a major health problem for which there are limited options for the diagnosis. Current diagnostic methods are time consuming with undesirable sensitivity. Among newer diagnostic methods, PCR is attractive and could be potentially very helpful in developing countries where systemic salmonella infections are endemic among children but needs to be in...

was performed at head-quarters on Ross Island, which only confirmed the diagnosis, and the value of this simple atropine test. A synopsis of a few cases may be of interest and these I briefly append below:? Case No. 1.?March 1924. Female aged 28. Vomiting, purging, severe vertigo, enlarged spleen and liver. Blood swarming with double malaria infection. Quinine injections intravenously did not c...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the clinical and laboratory properties, to see the response to therapy, incidence of antimicrobial resistance and complications of Enteric Fever in children. METHODS This is a retrospective study of 82 cases of enteric fever admitted in department of pediatrics, Manipal Teaching hospital, Pokhara, Nepal. Study period was six years from (Jan 2000 to Dec 2005). RESULTS T...

A prospective study of 102 children with bacteriologically confirmed typhoid fever, admitted to Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia over 5 years was conducted. The average age at presentation was 91.3 (range 6 - 159) months. Fever (900%), abdominal pain (56%) and diarrhoea (44%) were common symptoms. Findings included: hepatomegaly (85.3%), splenomegaly (27.5%), anaemia (31%), leukopenia (15%). ...