Typhus Fever: An Overlooked Diagnosis

A case of typhus fever is presented. On admission, the clinical diagnosis was typhoid fever. Forty-eight hours after admission, the presence of subconjunctival haemorrhage, malena, and jaundice raised the possibility of a different aetiology, the two most likely differentials being dengue and typhus...

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Autores principales: Mazumder, Ramendra N., Pietroni, Mark A.C., Mosabbir, Nadira, Salam, M.A.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2761786/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19507758
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author Mazumder, Ramendra N.
Pietroni, Mark A.C.
Mosabbir, Nadira
Salam, M.A.
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Pietroni, Mark A.C.
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description A case of typhus fever is presented. On admission, the clinical diagnosis was typhoid fever. Forty-eight hours after admission, the presence of subconjunctival haemorrhage, malena, and jaundice raised the possibility of a different aetiology, the two most likely differentials being dengue and typhus. Finally, a co-infection of typhoid and typhus was discovered. This uncommon clinical scenario should be taken into account in the management of patients with high fever on admission being treated as a case of typhoid fever.
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spelling pubmed-27617862010-10-18 Typhus Fever: An Overlooked Diagnosis Mazumder, Ramendra N. Pietroni, Mark A.C. Mosabbir, Nadira Salam, M.A. J Health Popul Nutr Case Study A case of typhus fever is presented. On admission, the clinical diagnosis was typhoid fever. Forty-eight hours after admission, the presence of subconjunctival haemorrhage, malena, and jaundice raised the possibility of a different aetiology, the two most likely differentials being dengue and typhus. Finally, a co-infection of typhoid and typhus was discovered. This uncommon clinical scenario should be taken into account in the management of patients with high fever on admission being treated as a case of typhoid fever. International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh 2009-06 /pmc/articles/PMC2761786/ /pubmed/19507758 Text en © INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH, BANGLADESH http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Mazumder, Ramendra N.
Pietroni, Mark A.C.
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Typhus Fever: An Overlooked Diagnosis
title Typhus Fever: An Overlooked Diagnosis
title_full Typhus Fever: An Overlooked Diagnosis
title_fullStr Typhus Fever: An Overlooked Diagnosis
title_full_unstemmed Typhus Fever: An Overlooked Diagnosis
title_short Typhus Fever: An Overlooked Diagnosis
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19507758
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