Typhoid Fever (Salmonella Typhi)

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  • Typhoid Fever (Salmonella Typhi)

Sites

  • Small bowel
  • Systemic infxn

Etiology

  • Gram negative rod

Risk Factors

  • From endemic area or travel
  • Related to poor sanitation→ outbreaks, travel to endemic areas, spread by contaminated/unwashed food, poor sanitation, unclean water
  • Gall bladder can act as reservoir

Symptoms

  • Malaise
  • Ha
  • Chills
  • Abd pain
  • Diarrhea
  • Relapsing daily fever x weeks
  • Maculop-pap rash→ rose spots, relative brady
  • Aside from fever, sx quite variable