A clinical, microbiological, and pathological study of intestinal perforation associated with typhoid fever.

One of the most serious complications of typhoid fever is intestinal perforation. Of 27 patients admitted to a provincial hospital in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam who had gastrointestinal perforation secondary to suspected typhoid fever, 67% were male, with a median age of 23 years and a media...

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Main Authors: Nguyen, Q, Everest, P, Tran, T, House, D, Murch, S, Parry, C, Connerton, P, Phan, V, To, S, Mastroeni, P, White, N, Vo, V, Dougan, G, Farrar, J, Wain, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2004