Typhoid Fever

At least we should test 2times.

It is important that you get a prescription of the drugs from a qualified doctor if you are suffering from Typhoid and other diseases.

She was a villain. She knew she was passing on an illness that made other people sick, and in a few cases killed humans, and she went on avoiding the authorities, spreading the disease.

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Vidal (originally- Widal) test related to Typhoid...To diagnose typhoid this test is being done by pathologists..

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mywadil test is 1/160 of Para - typhi AH

That is a very intelligent question! Typhoid disappeared from all the developed countries by 1940 by improved sanitation and good personal hygiene. Incidentally they were all Christian countries. Typhoid was rampant in developing countries by that time.

Typhoid and malaria are both treatable and curable, provided you get proper medical care.

In the United States, most patients who contract typhoid fever have recently returned from travel to another country where typhoid is much more common, including Mexico, Peru, Chile, India, and Pakistan.

Ofloxacin is fluroquinolone and one of the good drug for typhoid. You have to take 400 mg twice a day for ten days. But ciprofloxacin is probably better. Ofloxacin acts against the gram positive organisms better, but then it will cure the typhoid fever.

That is a good question! The answer is simple. You do step by step dilution of the serum with probably normal (isotonic) saline solution and test the same for Widal test. This is how you do quantitative test for many other tests also.

Transmission often occurs when a person in the carrier state does not wash hands thoroughly (or not at all) after defecation and serves food to others. This pathway is sometimes called the fecal-oral route of disease transmission

Mary Mallon did not have fever. She was asymptomatic carrier of typhoid. She did not believe the doctors and such phenomena is common in clinical practice.

Typhoid fever is mostly transmitted by the asymptomatic carriers. Some times the patient may hide the bacteria in his gall bladder and spreads the bacteria via stool intermittently for life time. Typhoid mostly spread via contaminated food, some times via contaminated water.

Typhoid is a dangerous disease. The aer about 21.5 million people in the world affected every year

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Taking antibiotics to prevent typhoid infection is not advised. You will create the drug resistant bacteria by this way. That is very dangerous phenomena.

It is said that the typhoid fever patient has got coated tongue. It was usual practice of old and gold physicians to observe the tongue of each and every patient. I could never get any such information and do not fallow the practice of observing the tongue of the patient. Some experienced physician needs to edit this answer.

With proper medication, you can cure typhoid fever. You have very good drugs to cure the typhoid fever.

Typhoid is similar to typhus fever. So it is probably called as typhoid fever. Typhoid has surpassed the typhus fever in prevalence to great extent.

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Isolated Widal test reading does not have much clinical significance. Rising titre of Widal test done one week apart, in a febrile patient, indicates typhoid fever. You can have such rising titre of Widal test in healthy patient, after dose of typhoid vaccine.

Typhoid fever was not very common in the 1940's. As a matter of fact, the fatality cases caused by typhoid fever in the 40's was less than 15%. It was mild in the 1940's.