دورية أكاديمية
Typhoid fever : a review of its impact and diagnostic problems
| العنوان: | Typhoid fever : a review of its impact and diagnostic problems |
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| المؤلفون: | Petit, PLC, Wamola, IA |
| بيانات النشر: | University of Nairobi |
| سنة النشر: | 1994 |
| المجموعة: | University of Nairobi Digital Repository |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Typhoid, Salmonella typhi, Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Human, Kenya, Salmonellosis, Bacteriosis, Infection, Enterobacteriaceae, Bacteria, Africa |
| الوصف: | A retrospective analysis was done on the diagnosis of typhoid fever based on clinical symptoms and available laboratory data over the last 16 years from rural areas of four African countries. This analysis concentrated on the reliability of diagnosis without cultures which cannot be performed in most rural hospitals due to lack of the necessary expertise and equipments. The analysis showed the problem to be increasing perhaps because of interraction of salmonella infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), malnutrition and other infections together with neglected sanitary facilities and lack of clean water. The use of certain cardinal clinical symptoms combined with available laboratory tests were shown to enhance the diagnosis of typhoid fever, especially in vulnerable persons |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| العلاقة: | Petit, P. L. C., & Wamola, I. A. (1994). Typhoid fever: a review of its impact and diagnostic problems. East African medical journal, 71(3), 183-188.; http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=3306440Test; http://hdl.handle.net/11295/39787Test |
| الإتاحة: | http://hdl.handle.net/11295/39787Test http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=3306440Test |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.843664F |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| الوصف غير متاح. |