Typhoid fever

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Background

Diagnosis

  1. fvr, ha
  2. abd pain, constipation, -diarrhea rare
  3. leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, dry cough, LN
  4. insidious onset unlike dengue or rickettsia
  5. dx by blood cx for salmonella enterica serotype typhi
  6. serology unreliable

Treatment

  1. tx empirically with flouroquinolone or 3rd gen cephal
  2. vaccine partially effecive and breakthrough infc possible

See Also

Travel Medicine

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