Cross sectional study to study clinical profile of blood culture positive typhoid fever patients
Introduction: Typhoid fever is highly prevalent in India with hight rate of morbidity and mortality. There is paucity of data from India on the clinical and investigational profile of proven typhoid fever patients. Thus this study has been taken up to study these aspects of typhoid fever. Aims and objectives: To study clinical profile of blood culture positive typhoid fever patients. Materials and Methods: Study was carried out in the Department of Pediatrics, Northern Railways Central Hospital, New Delhi. 100 patients with fever of more than 3 days duration were taken.