Burden of typhoid fever in Sulaimania, Iraqi Kurdistan.

[typhoid]

Typhoid fever imposes a high disease burden worldwide , but resource limitations mean that the burden of typhoid fever in many countries is poorly understood .The authors conducted a prospective surveillance study at the adult and pediatric teaching hospitals in Sulaimania , Iraqi Kurdistan . All patients presenting with an undifferentiated febrile illness consistent with typhoid were eligible for enrollment . Enrolled patients had blood cultures and Brucella serologies performed . Incidence was calculated with reference to census data .Both typhoid fever and brucellosis were common , and the incidence of typhoid fever was 21 cases /100 Â 000 patient-years . Classic disease symptoms were uncommonly observed .Cost-effective surveillance projects to calculate disease burden of typhoid fever are practical and replicable . Typhoid has successfully adapted to the healthcare environment in Sulaimania . Additional work in the region should focus on antibiotic resistance and other enteric pathogens such as Brucella spp .

Diseases
Validation

Diseases presenting "fever" symptom

22q11.2 deletion syndrome

acute rheumatic fever

alexander disease

allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis

canavan disease

carcinoma of the gallbladder

child syndrome

congenital toxoplasmosis

cushing syndrome

cystinuria

dracunculiasis

erdheim-chester disease

esophageal adenocarcinoma

esophageal carcinoma

familial mediterranean fever

focal myositis

hodgkin lymphoma, classical

lamellar ichthyosis

legionellosis

locked-in syndrome

malignant atrophic papulosis

neonatal adrenoleukodystrophy

neuralgic amyotrophy

oculocutaneous albinism

papillon-lefÃ¨vre syndrome

pyomyositis

pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency

scrub typhus

severe combined immunodeficiency

sneddon syndrome

systemic capillary leak syndrome

triple a syndrome

typhoid

waldenstrÃ¶m macroglobulinemia

wolf-hirschhorn syndrome

This symptom has already been validated