TYPHOID-FEVER OUTBREAK

Authors
GALLACCHI MB THOME F AUCKENTHALER R BURNENS A
Citation
Mb. Gallacchi et al., TYPHOID-FEVER OUTBREAK, Schweizerische medizinische Wochenschrift, 123(36), 1993, pp. 1692-1695
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
Schweizerische medizinische Wochenschrift → ACNP
ISSN journal
00367672
Volume
123
Issue
36
Year of publication
1993
Pages
1692 - 1695
Database
ISI
SICI code
0036-7672(1993)123:36<1692:TO>2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
An outbreak of typhoid fever was observed in a group of students and a ccompanying teachers during a journey to Haiti in summer 1991. All (6) infected persons were symptomatic and rapidly cured by antibiotics. T he Salmonella typhi strains isolated from blood cultures were all iden tical by ribotyping. All the participants had a medical checkup and st ool cultures were obtained; asymptomatic carriers could be excluded. S econdarily infected persons were not observed. The infectious source h as not been identified, but various hypotheses are considered. Oral va ccination does not appear to modify the risk of infection in exposed p ersons.