RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Enteric fever in young Yoruba children.
JF Archives of Disease in Childhood
JO Arch Dis Child
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
SP 67
OP 71
DO 10.1136/adc.50.1.67
VO 50
IS 1
A1 Duggan, M B
A1 Beyer, L
YR 1975
UL http://adc.bmj.com/content/50/1/67.abstract
AB Ninety-seven Nigerian children under 5 years of age had typhoid or paratyphoid fever proved by blood culture. The presented with fever, anaemia, gastrointestinal or neurological disturbances, and typhoid and paratyphoid appeared clinically indistinguishible. In this holoendemic malarial area, malaria was the most important differential diagnosis, and may have contributed to the concomitant anaemia seen in the majority of patients. Despite vigorous therapy with chloramphenicol or trimethoxazole, and blood transfusion where indicated, the mortality in both typhoid and paratyphoid was high (18% in both groups).