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Abstract
Typhoid fever is a systemic infection caused
hy S. typhi.
The syroptaffiato logy and post-martum appearance
of eyphDid fever were first accurately describedei in history by French workers such a Louis and Gerhard
in the early years of the 19th century.
The clinical picture of typhoid fever in infant is that. of mild gast.roenterjtis or of !38Vere septicernia Vamiting r abdOII:Ii na 1 dis tellS Lon and diarrhae a
are common. The t.croperat.urlo’ may be variable but c~n
~c~Ch as high a~ 4~oC. Sei~ureS may be obslo’rved.
l-!epatomegalY,
can be marked.
Sometimes, thO? di;~ease ro”nifel’ted ••’1th a locajaundiCe,
i’l1\or8xia and weight loss
liz eel i nf larnmatory ] ”,5io’lS or ore of th€ cornplic:atiors
e.g. intestinal bleeding or J.’lo’rforation.
’{’he diagnosiS in in£arcy is of t.e n ma,llo’ by t he
isola tion of SaLmone L’la ti·plt j
or bol’lo’marrow aspirate.
P,~tler i c revers are enoemic in tropical and
frOID ~t:ool~. bloDU
e;ubtropical regions, particularly whore
of communaJ and pE’r scn al hi’ge Lne l’lre low.