title: Salmonella enteritidis from a case of fever with thrombocytopenia.
abstract: Non typhoidal Salmonella species are thought to be potentially infectious to humans. We isolated Salmonella enteritidis from a 10-year-old boy with fever and thrombocytopenia. We reviewed the literature concerning infections caused by Salmonella but we could not find any such case report from India.
authors.affiliation: Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, India. shamataluja@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Shamma
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Arora
authors.forename: Naveen
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.forename: Ashwani
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: I R
authors.initials: IR
authors.lastname: Kaur
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005335:Fever of Unknown Origin / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D008297:Male; D012480:Salmonella Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology; D012477:Salmonella enteritidis / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D013921:Thrombocytopenia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology