Typhoid and paratyphoid fever co-infection in children from an urban slum of Delhi

Ankita Dutta; Deepak More; Ananya Tupaki-Sreepurna; Bireshwar Sinha; Nidhi Goyal; Temsunaro Rongsen-Chandola

doi:10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00717

Typhoid and paratyphoid fever co-infection in children from an urban slum of Delhi

IDCases. 2020 Feb 10:20:e00717. doi: 10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00717. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Ankita Dutta¹, Deepak More¹, Ananya Tupaki-Sreepurna¹, Bireshwar Sinha¹, Nidhi Goyal¹, Temsunaro Rongsen-Chandola¹

Affiliation

¹ Centre for Health Research and Development Society for Applied Studies (CHRD-SAS), New Delhi, India.

Abstract

We report two cases of co-infection with Salmonella Typhi and Salmonella Paratyphi A identified by blood culture and confirmed by serotyping from an ongoing fever surveillance cohort in an urban slum in New Delhi. Co-infections such as these have important implications on diagnosis, treatment options including choice of antimicrobial(s), disease outcome and strategy for prevention.

Keywords: Co-infection; Community-Acquired; Salmonella Paratyphi A; Salmonella Typhi.

Publication types

Case Reports