title: Culture proven Salmonella typhi co-infection in a child with Dengue fever: a case report.
abstract: Infectious diseases are one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality in developing countries. Sometimes concurrent infections with multiple infectious agents may occur in one patient, which make the diagnosis and management a challenging task. The authors here present a case of co-infection of typhoid fever with dengue fever in a ten-year-old child and discuss the pertinent issues. The authors emphasize that the risk factors predicting the presence of such co-infections, if developed, will be immensely useful in areas where dengue outbreak occurs in the background of high transmission of endemic infections.
authors.affiliation: Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry, India. drsrirag86@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Rangan
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Srinivasaraghavan
authors.forename: Parameswaran
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Narayanan
authors.forename: Thandapani
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kanimozhi
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D060085:Coinfection / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D003715:Dengue / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012485:Salmonella typhi / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D014435:Typhoid Fever / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology