Enteric fever in and around Ambajogai, Maharashtra
Journal Title: MedPulse -International Medical Journal - Year 2015, Vol 2, Issue 10
Abstract
Enteric fever is an acute communicable disease caused by Salmonella species and it occurs in all parts of the world. Enteric fever is a major public health problem in India. Definitive diagnosis of typhoid can be made by the isolation of Salmonella typhi (S.typhi) from blood, faeces or bone marrow. Such culture techniques are often unavailable in developing nation and widal test serves as most efficient serological diagnostic tool. In the present study, an attempt is made to find out the incidence of enteric fevers, the proportion of typhoid fever with paratyphoid fevers and to find out seasonal variation of enteric fever in rural population of Ambajogai with special emphasis on widal reaction. Incidence of enteric fever was found to be 15.99% out of 5676 febrile patients. 815 [14.35%] were diagnosed as cases of typhoid fever i.e. Salmonella typhi infection, 93 cases were diagnosed as paratyphoid fever out of which 82 [1.44%] had Salmonalla paratyphi A infection and only 11 [0.19%] had Salmonella paratyphi B infection. The proportion of S. typhi to S. paratyphi A infection were 10:1.01, and that of S. paratyphi B infection was 10:0.13. Incidence of enteric fever is more i.e. 554 [61.01%] in rainy season as compared to winter and summer seasons. Due to unhygienic practices in rural population, enteric fever shows seasonal variation in terms of temporal distribution.
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Nilekar Sandeep Laxmikant, Rajhans Vaibhav Vitthalrao
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