{"id":11702,"date":"2021-03-19T14:57:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T14:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/?p=11702"},"modified":"2021-03-19T14:57:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T14:57:22","slug":"case-report-an-adolescent-with-multi-organ-involvement-from-typhoid-fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/?p=11702","title":{"rendered":"Case Report: An adolescent with multi-organ involvement from typhoid fever"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Pui-Ying Iroh Tam<\/strong> &#8211; University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Keywords:\u00a0<\/strong>typhoid fever, enteric fever, adolescent, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, anemia, haematological, cardiovascular, neurological.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Abstract<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Typhoid fever is usually a mild clinical disease, but it can have potentially serious complications. Here, we describe a case of an adolescent male who presented with severe illness and multi-organ involvement from typhoid fever. He required follow-up after discharge but eventually recovered. Clinicians should be aware of the spectrum of clinical manifestations as early recognition will improve monitoring and management of typhoid disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4>Journal Identifiers<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>eISSN: 1995-7262<br>print ISSN: 1995-7262<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/187752-Article-Text-477076-1-10-20190627.pdf\">Download PDF<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pui-Ying Iroh Tam &#8211; University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi Keywords:\u00a0typhoid fever, enteric fever, adolescent, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, anemia, haematological, cardiovascular, neurological. Abstract Typhoid fever is usually a mild clinical disease, but it can have potentially serious complications. Here, we describe a case of an adolescent male who presented with severe illness and multi-organ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[101],"tags":[67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11706,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11702\/revisions\/11706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}