Typhoid Fever (Salmonella Typhi)

Your Path

  • Typhoid fever (Salmonella typhi)

Sites

  • Small bowel
  • Systemic infxn

Etiology

  • Gram negative rod

Risk Factors

  • Poor sanitation
  • Unclean water
  • From endemic area or travel
  • Related to poor sanitation→ outbreaks
  • Travel to endemic areas
  • Spread by contaminated/unwashed food
  • Gall bladder can act as reservoir

Symptoms

  • Malaise
  • Ha
  • Chills
  • Abd pain
  • Diarrhe
  • Relapsing daily fever x weeks
  • Aside from fever, sx quite variable

Physical Exam Findings

  • Maculop-pap rash→ rose spots, relative brady