Epidemiology Typhoid fever remains a significant health problem in many of the developing
countries of the world, although in Western communities the disease has largely become an …

Clinical picture: a reappraisal from an endemic area Chloramphenicol has dramatically
transformed the clinical picture of typhoid fever from a life-threat-ening illness of several …

Although a new monograph on typhoid fever may seem superfluous, the author, senior
lecturer in surgery at the University of East Africa, shows that the disease continues as a …

There is almost a north-south divide between the geographical prevalence of the two broad
clinical syndromes caused by the organisms of the genus salmonella. The prolonged …

Clinical aspects Small intestinal perforation. The high mortality rate of this dreaded
complication of typhoid fever in devel oping countries remains a cause for concern. Workers …

The features of typhoid fever in Indian South Africans are described. In children the illness
was usually uncomplicated. However, anaemia, thrombocytopenia and hypo-albuminaemia …

A total of 1452 cases of typhoid fever was notified in Singapore from 1980–9. The morbidity
rates of indigenous cases showed a steady decline from 5.9 per 100000 population in 1980 …

A retrospective survey of all notified cases of typhoid and paratyphoid fever in Denmark
1986-1990 was carried out by extracting epidemiological data from the mandatory …

Sixty-one patients with typhoid fever were treated at the Roslagstull Hospital, Stockholm,
Sweden over the 20-year period 1961–1980. All but three patients probably contracted their …

Typhoid fever remains a major cause of mortality in developing countries, with a case-fatality
rate (CFR) of 12%–32%, whereas in developed countries this rate has successfully been …