Abstract

MURINELLO, A. et al. Typhoid fever - clinical and endoscopic aspects. J Port Gastrenterol. [online]. 2008, vol.15, n.2, pp.76-82. ISSN 0872-8178.

Typhoid fever is an enteric disease due to Salmonella typhi, presenting as a septicaemic illness, affecting an elevated number of people living in regions with poor sanitary conditions,  acquired through the ingestion of water and food contaminated by feces of acutely ill patients or chronic carriers of the microorganism. In developed countries the disease is usually “imported”. Colonoscopic demonstration of ulcerations of typhoid ileocolitis is scarcely referred in medical literature, and there are no previous references to endoscopic aspects of typhoid ileocolitis in Portugal. Based on this, the authors review typhoid fever as far as are pathogeny, pathology, clinical picture and colonoscopic aspects are concerned as well as therapy recommended for susceptible and resistant strains of Salmonella typhi.

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