Typhoid Salmonella generally requires treatment. Mortality rate for treated cases is 2%, while complications occur in 30% of untreated cases. Morbidity and mortality increases with drug-resistant S typhi. 8 мар. 2021 г.
What is the mortality rate of Salmonella?
The overall mortality rate for most forms of salmonellosis is less than 1%. In hospital or nursing home outbreaks, the mortality rate can be up to 70 times higher. Salmonella gastroenteritis is rarely fatal in healthy people.
What is the mortality rate for typhoid?
Without therapy, the illness can last for 3 to 4 weeks and death rates range between 12% and 30%. Relapse occurs in up to 10% of untreated patients approximately 1 to 3 weeks after recovering from the initial illness and is often milder than the initial illness.
Is typhoid always fatal?
Before the antibiotic era, the case fatality rate of typhoid fever was 10%–20%. Today, with prompt treatment, it is less than 1%, but 3%–5% of people who are infected develop a chronic infection in the gall bladder.
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