Typhoid Fever Obscured by Inadequate Chlortetracycline Therapy

Abstract

IT is usually possible to rule out typhoid fever in the differential diagnosis of a fever of unknown origin in the first few weeks. Culture methods are likely to demonstrate the organism in the blood and some time later in the stool or urine. In the third week the rise in serum agglutinins may be significant enough to help the clinician who entertained the diagnosis on epidemiologic and clinical grounds but had been unable to isolate the typhoid bacillus.A case of severe typhoid fever in which neither a clinical nor a bacteriologic diagnosis could be made for more than . . .