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    Typhoid Fever at A Glance

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    Typhoid fever is an acute illness caused by Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi bacteria contracted through contaminated food or water. Symptoms include fever, headaches, abdominal pain, and rash. Diagnosis is made through stool, urine, or blood cultures detecting the bacteria. Treatment involves antibiotics such as chloramphenicol or other effective antibiotics. Some patients become chronic carriers posing a continued transmission risk.

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    Typhoid fever is an acute illness caused by Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi bacteria contracted through contaminated food or water. Symptoms include fever, headaches, abdominal pain, and rash. Diagnosis is made through stool, urine, or blood cultures detecting the bacteria. Treatment involves antibiotics such as chloramphenicol or other effective antibiotics. Some patients become chronic carriers posing a continued transmission risk.

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    Typhoid fever is an acute illness caused by Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi bacteria contracted through contaminated food or water. Symptoms include fever, headaches, abdominal pain, and rash. Diagnosis is made through stool, urine, or blood cultures detecting the bacteria. Treatment involves antibiotics such as chloramphenicol or other effective antibiotics. Some patients become chronic carriers posing a continued transmission risk.

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    TYPHOID

    TYPHOID
    FEVER AT A
    FEVER
    an acute illness associated with fever
    GLANCE caused by the Salmonella enterica
    serotype Typhi bacteria.
     Contracted by the
    ingestion of
    contaminated food
    or water
     Diagnosis of
    typhoid fever is
    made when
    Salmonella
    bacteria are
    detected with
    stool, urine, or
    blood cultures.
     Typhoid fever is
    treated with
    antibiotics.
     Typhoid fever
    symptoms are
    poor appetite,
    headaches,
    generalized aches
    and pains, fever,
    and lethargy.
     Approx. 3-5% of
    patients become
    carries.
    Medical Treatment:
    INCUBATION PERIOD Chloramphenicol was the original
    drug of choice for many years.
    Because of rare serious side effects,
    chloramphenicol has been replaced
    by other effective antibiotics.
    The incubation period for typhoid
    fever is usually 8–14 days, but this
    depends on the infective dose and
    can vary from 3 days to 1 month.

    Period of Communicability:
    The diseases are communicable as
    long as typhoid bacilli are present in
    excreta. Some patients become
    permanent carriers.

    BAPTISTA, ELIZABETH MARIE C. |


    Signs & Symptoms BSN 3A-1 | Group 1-A
    The two major symptoms of typhoid AFP Medical Center – Infectious
    are fever and rash. Typhoid fever is Ward
    particularly high, gradually increasing
    over several days up to 104 degrees
    Fahrenheit, or 39 – 40 degrees Celsius.

    The rash, which does not affect every


    patient, consists of rose-colored spots,
    particularly on the neck and
    abdomen.

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