PREVALENCE OF ENTERIC FEVER AMONG THE SUSPECTED PATIENTS VISITING KHYBER TEACHING HOSPITAL PESHAWAR

Abstract

The goal of the current study was to examine enteric fever in suspected patients. Enteric fever is sometimes referred to as typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever. Blood samples from suspected patients were obtained for this purpose at the Khyber Teaching Hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan. A total of 60 suspected cases with enteric fever patients was selected for study, ages ranging from 1 to 60 years sampling was done according to the following criteria. This research covered all suspected patients between the ages of one and sixty. Out of n=60, n=35 (58.3%) have a frequency between 1 and 10 years. The frequency in the 11–20 age range is n=18 (30%). The frequency between the ages of 21 and 30 is n=2 (3.3%).The frequency from 41 to 50 years consists of n=2 (3%) . Out of n=60 patients n=33 (55%) patients were male and n=27 (45%) patients were female, Among them a total n=14 (23%) patients were found positive and n=46 (77%) negative for enteric fever. Moreover out of n=33 male patients, n=10 (30%) were positive and out of n=27 female patients, 4 (15%) were positive. There are nine positive instances and twenty-six negative cases in the age period of one to ten years. In contrast, there are four positive instances and fourteen negative cases in the 11–20 age range. The age group between 21 to 30 years the number of positive case is n=1 as well as negative case is n=1.and there are two negative cases in the age range of 31 to 40 years.