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1906719

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1991-8-26
pubmed:abstractText
Records were examined for 242 individuals infected with Salmonella typhi or S. paratyphi identified in Birmingham between 1981 and 1988, with a total of 335 person years of follow-up. Of these cases 77 and 78 per cent respectively were followed beyond the point at which surveillance would have ceased under guidelines published by the American Public Health Association and by the Public Health Laboratory Service for England and Wales. Under these two sets of guidelines only seven (3.8 per cent) and eight (4.3 per cent) cases respectively had subsequent positive faecal or urine cultures over a median of 335 and 295 days of additional follow-up. After 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 prior consecutive negative sets of cultures obtained at weekly intervals the likelihood of the next set of cultures being positive was 26, 9, 5, 2.2, 2.4 and 0 per cent respectively. Only 38 (1.7 per cent) of 2184 follow-up urine cultures were positive; these results did not influence duration of follow-up. Only 26 (2.6 per cent) of 1002 contacts were infected; the yields of the first, second and third sets of cultures were 1.5, 0.6 and 0.5 per cent respectively.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0957-4832
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
13
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
101-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1991
pubmed:articleTitle
How long should patients with Salmonella typhi or Salmonella paratyphi be followed-up? A comparison of published guidelines.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Public Health Medicine, Birmingham.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article