scholarly journals Comparative Evaluation of Widal Slide Agglutination Test and Widal Tube Agglutination Test in Diagnosing Enteric Fever among Patients Attending a Tertiary Care Hospital in Western Odisha

2020 ◽  
Vol 09 (01) ◽  
pp. 5-9
Author(s):  
Shuvankar Mukherjee ◽  
Anshuman Dash ◽  
Shreekant Tiwari
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Evaluation ◽  
Enteric Fever ◽  
Tertiary Care Hospital ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Agglutination Test ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Slide Agglutination ◽  
Slide Agglutination Test

The rise and fall of epidemic Neisseria meningitidis from a tertiary care hospital in Delhi, January 2005–June 2007

2008 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 222-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Surinder Kumar ◽  
Bineeta Kashyap ◽  
Preena Bhalla
Keyword(s):  
Neisseria Meningitidis ◽  
Tertiary Care Hospital ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Latex Agglutination ◽  
Meningococcal Meningitis ◽  
Agglutination Test ◽  
Latex Agglutination Test ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Gram Staining ◽  
Health Goals

Meningococcal meningitis is endemic in India. There has been a sudden surge of cases of meningococcal meningitis in 2005 in Delhi. Present study was undertaken to find out changing trends in incidence of this disease from a tertiary care hospital in New Delhi over a period of two and half years. All samples from suspected cases of meningococcal meningitis were subjected to Gram staining, culture and latex agglutination test for detection of Neisseria meningitidis ( N.meningitidis). Antimicrobial susceptibility of all isolates was performed using the disc diffusion test. 78.6%, 71.4% and 100% of the samples were positive for N.meningitidis by smear examination, culture and latex agglutination test respectively. Except for resistance to Penicillin and Erythromycin in 8.8% and 5.9%, the isolates were sensitive to the commonly used antibiotics. Using simple, rapid and reliable methods for diagnosis, defining risk factors and continuing surveillance remain important public health goals for the control of meningococcal disease.

scholarly journals Etiology and clinical spectrum of acute undifferentiated fever illness in patients in a tertiary care hospital Sheri Kashmir institute of medical science Soura, Jammu and Kashmir

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Sheenam Gazala ◽  
Mohmad Saleem Chesti ◽  
Syed Mushfiq
Keyword(s):  
Enteric Fever ◽  
Tertiary Care Hospital ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Categorical Variables ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Continuous Variables ◽  
Jammu And Kashmir ◽  
And Gender

Background: Current study aimed at s to delineate the etiology and clinical parameters associated with AUFI presenting to emergency department in a tertiary care hospital.Methods: This was a prospective hospital based study carried out at emergency medicine, SKIMS hospital, Soura Kashmir, India July 2017 to august 2018. Patients with acute undifferentiated fever were enrolled. Descriptive statistics were calculated in terms of mean±SD for continuous variables like age of the patients and duration of fever, Frequency and percentage were used to analyse categorical variables such as causes of fever and gender, while as descriptive analysis was calculated in terms of mean±SD for continuous variables like age of the patients and duration of fever.Results: Total numbers of patients included were 174, among these 112 (64.3%) were males and 62 (35.6%) were females. Most patients were diagnosed enteric fever (N=59, 33.9%) followed by UTI (N=25, 14.3%) dengue (N=12, 6.8%) and malaria (N=8, 4.5%) while rest of cases were associated with other viral illnesses (N=70, 40.5%) based on clinical basis and inconclusive laboratory results.Conclusions: Enteric fever was found to be the most common cause of acute undifferentiated fever followed by dengue and other viral illnesses, although causes and clinic spectrum of AUFI is varied.

scholarly journals Identification of Risk Factors for Typhoid Fever in Children Admitted in a Tertiary Care Hospital

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Soma Halder ◽  
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Md. Ekhlasur Rahman ◽  
Mst Mukta Sarker ◽  
Fabia Hannan Mone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
Enteric Fever ◽  
Tertiary Care Hospital ◽  
Systemic Disease ◽  
Univariate Analysis ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Major Public Health Problem ◽  
Care Hospital

Enteric fever remains a major public health problem in developing countries like Bangladesh. Improvement in the health facility, vaccination, and health-related awareness program the incidence of enteric fever among children is not decreased. The study aimed to find out the risk factors for enteric fever in hospitalized children in a tertiary care hospital. Methodology: We conducted a hospital-based case-control study to identify the risk factors in children residing in Dhaka city. We enrolled 50 enteric fever cases as a case group and 50 age-matched febrile patients as a control group. Result: Out of 50 cases, 2 patients were below one year and most of them were pre-school aged 26(52%). Univariate analysis showed that enteric fever is more who take food with the help of the mother and caregiver (OR=7.1); 95% CI= 26.7 -61.3) and never or rarely wash hands before preparing food and before feeding (OR= 5.7; 95% CI= 23.2 -52.8). Cases were eating outdoors at the mobile food vendors and consuming ice-cream regularly (OR=2.28; 95% CI=1- 39) whereas the control group also took street food but less frequently. Conclusion: Enteric fever is an exclusive food and water-borne systemic disease and one of the major public health problems in Bangladesh. Not only overcrowding, unsafe drinking water are the common risk factors but also hand washing both children and caregiver, poor food habit is the important risk factors. So, health education to children and food handlers may reduce the incidence of enteric fever in children.

scholarly journals Socio-Demographic Factors Affecting the Prevalence of Enteric Fever: A Study in a Tertiary Care Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 1927-1931
Author(s):  
Mizanur Rahman ◽  
ASM Nawshad Uddin Ahmed ◽  
Jafar Iqbal ◽  
Mohammad Abdullah Al Mamun ◽  
Nazia Hossain ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Enteric Fever ◽  
Tertiary Care Hospital ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Demographic Factors ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Socio Demographic Factors

scholarly journals Epidemiological Profile and Antimicrobial Resistance Pattern of Enteric Fever in a Tertiary Care Hospital of North India – a Seven Year Ambispective Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 125-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anuradha Makkar ◽  
Shilpi Gupta ◽  
Inam Danish Khan ◽  
Rajiv Mohan Gupta ◽  
KS Rajmohan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Enteric Fever ◽  
Tertiary Care Hospital ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Multidrug Resistant ◽  
North India ◽  
Major Public Health Problem ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Drug Resistant

Introduction: Enteric-fever is a major public-health problem in developing countries emerging as multidrug-resistant, Nalidixic-acid resistant and extremely drug-resistant Salmonella (Pakistan, 2016), has intensified the use of WHO watch/reserve group antimicrobials such as azithromycin and meropenem. Methods: This ambispective-study was conducted on 782 non-repeat blood-culture isolates of S. Typhi, S. Paratyphi A and S. Paratyphi B obtained from 29,184 blood cultures received at a 1000-bedded tertiary-care hospital of North-India from 2011–2017. Identification and antibiograms were obtained by Vitek-2 compact and Kirby-Bauer’s disc diffusion with resistance to ampicillin, chloramphenicol and cotrimoxazole being labeled as multidrug-resistant. Decreased ciprofloxacin-susceptibility and ciprofloxacin-resistance were defined as MIC 0.125–0.5 and >1 μg/ml. Results: S. Typhi and S. Paratyphi A in a ratio of 3.9:1 were seen between July–September predominantly distributed between 6–45 year age group. Resistance to co-trimoxazole, chloramphenicol, ceftriaxone and azithromycin was 6.1%, 13.8%, 16.1 and 5.78% respectively. Multidrug-resistant S. typhi and S. paratyphi A were 2.73% and 1.91% respectively. Conclusion: Enteric-fever is a major public-health problem in India. Emergence of multidrug-resistant, Nalidixic-acid resistant and extremely-drug resistant Salmonella mandates ongoing surveillance for targeted empirical therapy and containment of spread. Repeated epidemics call for water, sanitation, hygiene and vaccination strategies to sustain herd-immunity.

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