Clinical features, laboratory findings, and complications of typhoid fever were correlated with sex through a retrospective case note review of 102 hospitalized culture-positive patients in Durban, South Africa. Intestinal perforation (P = 0.04), occult blood losses in stools (P = 0.04), and a mild reticulocytosis in the absence of hemolysis (P = 0.02) occurred more frequently in males than in ...

Objective: An outbreak of scrub typhus was declared by Public Health authorities in our district October, 2022. To investigate this a team experts from Microbiology, SPM, Medicine and Pediatric sent to the place they observed that there heavy vegetation, stagnant water, dwellings heavily infested with rodent population. There rain past two weeks district. cause sudden upsurge febrile illness ca...

Background: The study was hepatic dysfunction in childhood dengue infection and to clinical co-relation like severity, features, outcome.Methods: Dengue sero positive patients of 100 were admitted during the period examined for hepatomegaly jaundice subjected complete blood count, liver function tests, ultrasound abdomen, PT, APTT, HBsAg, HCV, Widal analysed.Results: All presented with fever, m...

Typhoid fever poses a serious public health problem in Nigeria and is largely diagnosed based on the Widal agglutination test which has been proven to be neither sensitive nor specific. This study determined prevalence of typhoid using both blood culture automated microbiology systems (BD BACTEC). The was carried out among 90 patients attending Murtala Muhammad Specialist Hospital Kano. Out cas...

Background: .
 Malaria is serious vector –borne tropical diseases that remains one of the primary reasons for death in several countries . and typhoid co-infection a major public health problem many developing countries. Most co-infections treated are based on methods diagnosis plagued with assumptions which possibly exaggerate situation. Objective: This aim this work was to investigate ra...