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An adolescent with multi-organ involvement from typhoid fever
Typhoid fever is usually a mild clinical disease, but it can have potentially serious complications. Here, we describe a case of an adolescent male who presented with severe illness and multi-organ involvement from typhoid fever. He required follow-up after discharge but eventually recovered. Clinic...
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The Medical Association Of Malawi
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6698619/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31452851 http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/mmj.v31i2.10 |
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author | Kumwenda, Mercy Tam, Pui-Ying Iroh |
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description | Typhoid fever is usually a mild clinical disease, but it can have potentially serious complications. Here, we describe a case of an adolescent male who presented with severe illness and multi-organ involvement from typhoid fever. He required follow-up after discharge but eventually recovered. Clinicians should be aware of the spectrum of clinical manifestations as early recognition will improve monitoring and management of typhoid disease. |
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spelling | pubmed-66986192019-08-26 An adolescent with multi-organ involvement from typhoid fever Kumwenda, Mercy Tam, Pui-Ying Iroh Malawi Med J Case Report Typhoid fever is usually a mild clinical disease, but it can have potentially serious complications. Here, we describe a case of an adolescent male who presented with severe illness and multi-organ involvement from typhoid fever. He required follow-up after discharge but eventually recovered. Clinicians should be aware of the spectrum of clinical manifestations as early recognition will improve monitoring and management of typhoid disease. The Medical Association Of Malawi 2019-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6698619/ /pubmed/31452851 http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/mmj.v31i2.10 Text en © 2019 The College of Medicine and the Medical Association of Malawi. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
spellingShingle | Case Report Kumwenda, Mercy Tam, Pui-Ying Iroh An adolescent with multi-organ involvement from typhoid fever |
title | An adolescent with multi-organ involvement from typhoid fever |
title_full | An adolescent with multi-organ involvement from typhoid fever |
title_fullStr | An adolescent with multi-organ involvement from typhoid fever |
title_full_unstemmed | An adolescent with multi-organ involvement from typhoid fever |
title_short | An adolescent with multi-organ involvement from typhoid fever |
title_sort | adolescent with multi-organ involvement from typhoid fever |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6698619/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31452851 http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/mmj.v31i2.10 |
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