Typhoid accounts for 8% of pediatric admissions to the Aga Khan University Hospital in
Karachi, Pakistan. Over a 4-year period (1986–1989), 355 children had typhoid documented …

A total of 592 children with clinical diagnosis of typhoid fever admitted to the Dr BC Roy
Memorial Hospital for Children, Calcutta, India during the period between February 1990 …

One hundred children (consecutive) with positive blood culture for Salmonella typhi were
studied for clinical profile and complications. The common clinical features were fever …

The emergence and spread of Salmonella typhi resistant to multiple antibiotics is now a
subject of international concern. Not only has it become endemic in many developing …

Multiple drug resistant Salmonella typhi infection was observed in thirty five recent cases
among forty eight children with bacteriologically proven enteric fever. Incidence of …

Fifty blood culture positive patients of typhoid fever were studied during the current outbreak
of the disease for their clinical profile. In 39 (78%) cases the isolates of S. typhi were …

The risk factors for mortality were analysed in a consecutive group of 1158 children
presenting to the Aga Khan University Medical Center, Karachi, with multidrug resistant …

Of 103 cases of typhoid fever admitted to the Pediatric Wing of our hospital during the
months of August 1989 to April 1990, 82.5% were resistant to chloramphenicol, ampicillin …

Six hundred and eighty five blood cultures from children clinically diagnosed as enteric fever
yielded 176 salmonella strains showing isolation success rate of 25.7%, S. typhi were 164 …

In recent years, multiresistant strains of Salmonella typhi have emerged in many tropical
countries. These strains remain highly sensitive to the fluoroquinolone antibiotics, although …