Humera Rafiq, Rashid Zia, Samina Naeem.
Typhoid fever – continues as a major threat in children.
Biomedica Jan ;25(2):163-5.

A total of 100 children hospitalized with clinical and/or laboratory diagnosis of typhoid fever admitted to the pediatric ward were reviewed for demographic data such as age, sex, clinical features, and results of laboratory tests. There were 59 male and 41 female patients, with a mean age of 6.6 years ranging from 2 months to 13 years. Eleven of all the children 08 were less than one year of age, while 34 were under the age of five years. Predominant symptoms were hepatomegaly, splenomegaly, fever, abdominal pain, vomiting and headache. A febrile convulsion was the presenting symptom in 2 of the patients, all of whom were under the age of five years. Intestinal perforation was not present in any of the patients. Elevated serum alanine and aspartate aminotransferase (50 > /U/L) levels were observed in 28% of our patients.

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