Most patients with paratyphoid fever recover completely, although intestinal complications can result in death. With early treatment, the mortality rate is less than 1%.
Paratyphoid fever has three stages: an early stage marked by high fever; a toxic stage with abdominal pain and intestinal symptoms, and a long period of recovery from fever (defervescence).
an early stage marked by high fever
Travelers in countries with high rates of paratyphoid fever should be careful to wash hands before eating and to avoid meat, egg, or poultry dishes unless they have been thoroughly cooked.
a toxic stage with abdominal pain and intestinal symptoms
Salmonella Typhi AH is also known as Paratyphoid fever. This is an illness.
Yes. Both of them are bacteriocidal and can be taken together. Both of them are drug of choice for paratyphoid fever and second drug of choice for typhid fever.
Acute typhoid is very uncommon. But then it is possible to have acute typhoid, when patient gets the loading dose of the bacteria. Usually the fever is paratyphoid fever in such cases.
It can be transmitted from animals or animal products to humans or from person to person.
Patients with intestinal perforation or hemorrhage may need surgery if the infection cannot be controlled by antibiotics.
Typhoid-paratyphoid A and B vaccine
The majority of WNV infections will manifest asymptomatically. West Nile fever offers an excellent prognosis
With treatment, prognosis is excellent for both types of rat-bite fever. Without treatment, the spirillary form usually resolves on its own, although it may take up to a year to do so