[Typhoid fever in adult patients in Ouagadougou (analytic study of 124 cases) (author's transl)].
The authors study clinical and evolutive aspects of 124 cases of typho-paratyphoïdic fever carried out in Ouagadougou. Main features are emphasized and compared to series previously recorded in other tropical countries: -the most frequent form is the conventional one with fever-diarrhoea-vomiting, headache and abdominal pain; -10,4 p. 100 of the cases present further complication, with 13 fatal issues, mostly due to acute encephalitis and to the delay reporting to the hospital; -treatment raised no special problem, Eberth bacillus which is the most frequently detected germ, being still very sensible to phenicoles derivatives.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D002050:Burkina Faso; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012737:Sex Factors; D014435:Typhoid Fever / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology
La fièvre typhoïde de l'adulte à Ouagadougou. Etude analytique de 124 observations.