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Table 4 Epidemiological, clinical and laboratory features in the 87 inpatients with culture-confirmed enteric fever

From: Genetic Diversity of Salmonella enteric serovar Typhi and Paratyphi in Shenzhen, China from 2002 through 2007

Parametera

S. typhi-infected patients

(n = 25)

S. paratyphi A-infected patients (n = 62)

Mean age (yr) (range)

26.7 (0-67)

32.7 (16-62)

Male

14 (56)

36 (58)

Previous enteric fever

0 (0)

1 (2)

Contact with patients with enteric fever

0 (0)

1 (2)

Insalubrity intake

3 (12)

1 (2)

Sanitary latrine

25 (100)

61 (98)

History of travel in the 30 days preceding illness onset

0 (0)

6 (10)

Symptoms

  

   Fever

25 (100)

61 (98)

   Headache

9 (36)

31 (50)

   Chills

18 (72)

45 (73)

   Rigor

5 (20)

15 (24)

   Sweating

4 (16)

9 (15)

   Cough

3 (12)

13 (21)

   Abdominal pain

3 (12)

7 (11)

   Nausea

3 (12)

10 (16)

   Vomiting

2 (8)

8 (13)

   Diarrhea

2 (8)

12 (19)

   Myalgia

6 (24)

11 (18)

   Weight loss

8 (32)

9 (15)

   Erythra

3 (12)

3 (5)

Physical finding

  

   Abdominal tenderness

2 (8)

7 (11)

   Hepatomegaly

3 (12)

11 (18)

   Splenomegaly

7 (28)

30 (48)

Laboratory finding

  

   Mean WBC count (× 109/L) (range)

5.6 (2.1-8.5)

5.4 (1.0-16.8)

   positive Widal test

16 (84)b

9 (16)c

   ALT (> 40 IU/L)d

18 (72)

46 (74)

   AST (> 45 IU/L)e

17 (68)

45 (73)

Complicationsf

6 (24)

13 (21)

  1. a Data are presented as no. (%).
  2. b Only 19 patients were detected.
  3. c Only 55 patients were detected.
  4. d AST, aspartate transaminase (normal range, 0-40 IU/L).
  5. e ALT, alanine transaminase (normal range, 0-45 IU/L).
  6. f including toxic hepatitis, toxic myocarditis, intestinal hemorrhage, bronchitis, pneumonia, and bacterial meningitis.