Typhoid fever complications in Babylon

الملخص EN

635 patients with acute febrile illnesses admitted to Merjan teaching hospital during the period from Jan.

1996 to March 1997.

Blood culture had been performed on all these patients and Salmonella typhi were isolated in 65 patients (Isolation rate of 10.25 %).

The age incidence of these 65 cases ,range from (11-35) years , with a mean of 18.8 years .

29 are males and 36 are females .

The complications during the course of the disease were studied in these 65 patients,and bowel haemorrhage & perforation are still present.

We had noticcd oral soreness and oral ulceration in two female patients with Typhoid fever .