typhoid fever is one of the most important infectious diseases transmitted by contaminated food and water. this study aimed at epidemiological features of disease during the last five decades, over the period from 1962-2011.a retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted using typhoid fever national surveillance data.the highest incidence of typhoid fever was registered in 1965 with 133.4 /...

Background and Objective: The diagnosis of typhoid fever in children is a challenge due to the non-specific clinical picture. The current role of the Widal test for diagnosis in developing countries has not been clear. Materials and Methods: Charts were reviewed on all children ≤ 15 years of age discharg...

recognition of typhoid hepatitis is important since it has to be differentiated from other common ailments in our country such as viral, malarial or amoebic hepatitis. early institution of specific therapy in cases of typhoid hepatitis carries a good prognosis. in our study, 107 patients with positive blood or bone marrow cultures for salmonella typhi, were evaluated for hepatomegaly and abnorm...

the aim of this study was to characterize the effect of typhoid fever on pharmacokinetic parameters of levofloxacin (lf) and compare the pharmacokinetic parameters of the said antibiotic in healthy human volunteers and patients with typhoid fever. total of 12 subjects were divided into two groups “a” (healthy volunteers) and “b” (typhoid patients). single oral dose of lf 500 mg was given and 5 ...

typhoid fever is an endemic disease in iran and other developing countries. this disease has gradually become resistant to the first line of drugs, and because of this resistancy we have studied a new alternative drug (cefixime) on typhoid fever patients and compared it's effectiveness with chloramphenicol. for this purpose, by a randomized clinical trial in emam khomeini hospital between ...

This paper analyses how the Colombian medical elites made sense of typhoid fever before and during the inception of bacteriological ideas and practices in the second half of the nineteenth century. Assuming that the identity of typhoid fever has to be understood within the broader concerns of the medical community in question, I show how doctors first identified Bogotá's epidemics as typhoid fe...