Background: Infection with two agents might cause overlapping symptoms, confusing the treating physician. This study aims to determine current coinfections rates in dengue patients a tertiary care Govt. General Hospital, Anathapuramu. Method: From July 2021 November 2021, an observational was conducted at Government Medical College & Hospital Ananthapuramu. A total of 100 clinically suspect...

Salmonella typhi splenic abscesses are a very rare complication of typhoid fever. Splenectomy is the standard surgical treatment for these lesions. But these days, with improvements in imaging techniques, percutaneous drainage of splenic abscesses has been demonstrated to be one of the alternative treatment in selected cases. We report the case of a 7 year-old male, who presented with Salmonell...

This chart review was undertaken to assess efficacy and safety of hydroxocobalamin for acute cyanide poisoning. Hospital records of the Fernand Widal and Lariboisière Hospitals were reviewed for intensive care unit admissions with cyanide poisoning for which hydroxocobalamin was used as first-line treatment from 1988 to 2003. Smoke inhalation cases were excluded. Hydroxocobalamin (5-20 g) was a...

The antibody response of patients with various infections has been utilized as an aid to diagnosis since the early days of scientific microbiology, as exemplified by the Widal, Wassermann, and Weil-Felix tests. A variety of serologic techniques have been used to this end. In our laboratories we have studied the antibody response by means of the passive bacterial hemagglutination test on patient...

It is now a year since Sheridan Del?pine brought the serum test for enteric fever prominently before the profession in this country. Since the publication of his admirable paper in the Lancet a large amount of evidence has accumulated in favour of the accuracy of this new method of making a diagnosis, which has always been admitted to be of considerable difficulty. It is not my intention in thi...

dome; years ago, Widal reported a desperate case of cerebrospinal meningitis which was apparently cured by washing out the spinal theca with solution of collargol. Bonche and his colleagues have recorded a case in which the spinal theca was washed with warm sterile normal saline solution through two needles, one introduced between the 2nd and 3rd lumbar vertebne and the other between the 7th ce...

Abstract:
 Introduction: Brucellosis can present with clinical hepatitis and rarely as acute cholestatic hepatitis. The aim of the study is to demonstrate a rare presentation caused by Brucella melitensis. 
 Case Presentation: A thirty-nine-years-old male patient was admitted our department complaints fever, malaise, fatigue sweating. At hospitalization, temperature 39°C. Laboratory t...

A six-year-old boy with high-grade fever and abdominal pain in the epigastric region was examined with ultrasonogram of the abdomen. Hematology-cell analysis, serology (Widal test), urine analysis, and blood cultures were also performed. The ultrasonogram was helpful for the identification of multiple organ involvement with Salmonella typhi. The results revealed mild hepatosplenomegaly, minimal...

RNV3P*, C. Doutrellot-Philippon (Amiens), D. Penneau-Fontbonne Y. Roquelaure (Angers), I. Tahon (Besançon), P. Brochard, C. Verdun-Esquer (Bordeaux), J.D. Dewitte (Brest), M. Letourneux (Caen), M.F. Marquignon (Cherbourg), A. Chamoux, L. Fontana (ClermontFerrand), J.C. Pairon (Créteil), H.J. Smolik (Dijon), J. Ameille, A. d’Escatha (Garches), A. Maitre, E. Michel (Grenoble), A. Gislard (Le Havr...