Case Report
First Trimester Typhoid Fever with Vertical Transmission of Salmonella Typhi, an Intracellular Organism
Table 2
Typhoid Fever in Pregnancy (adapted from Carles with permission).
| Author, date | No. of patients | <16 weeks | Fetal losses <16 weeks | Infection >16 weeks | Intrauterine fetal deaths >16 weeks | Neonatal sepsis | Neonatal deaths | Perinatal deaths >16 weeks |
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Riggall et al., 1974 [5] | 7 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Awadalla et al., 1985 [6] | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Amster et al., 1985 [7] | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Sadan et al., 1986 [8] | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Chin et al., 1986 [9] | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Seoud et al., 1988 [10] | 14 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Dildy et al., 1990 [11] | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Figueroa, 1994 [12]
| 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Gluck et al., 1994 [13] | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Hedriana et al., 1995 [14] | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Koul et al., 1995 [15] | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Leung et al., 1995 [16] | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Zenilman, 1997 [17] | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Carles et al., 2002 [18] | 25 | 3 | 1 | 22 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| Total | 72 | 12 | 7 | 60 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 8 | | | (58%) | | | | | (13%) |
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