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Infant, Newborn , Adolescent , Adult , Middle Aged , Humans , Male , Female , Family Health , Family , Socioeconomic FactorsSubject(s)
Adolescent , Adult , Middle Aged , Humans , Male , Female , Liver Cirrhosis/mortality , Chile , Liver Cirrhosis/epidemiologyABSTRACT
Se revisaron todos los certificados de defunción en niños y adolescentes del país durante 1982 con el diagnóstico de "muerte violenta". Todas la muertes en este grupo de edad fueron 2.787. De estos 1.429 ocurrieron bajo los 15 años y 1.358 desde los 15 a 24. Entre los menores 66% eran niños y 83% eran adolescentes. La taza de mortalidad por muertes violentas entre los niños fue de 39%. La tasa de mortalidad para todas las edades en 1982 fué de 75.8 por cien mil habitantes. La causa específica más frecuente fue "Lesiones de las cuales se ignora si fueron infligidas voluntariamente". La segunda causa fué "Inhalación de alimentos u objetos"
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Infant, Newborn , Infant , Child, Preschool , Child , Adolescent , Humans , Male , Female , Wounds and Injuries/epidemiology , Mortality , Violence , Death Certificates , ChileABSTRACT
A study of 460 female patients who had been diagnosed as typhoid fever cases and dismissed from the "Hospital de Infecciosos" in Santiago, Chile, during the period 1960-1064 was made for the purpose of determining the rate of Salmonella typhi carriers among them. All of the patients had been treated with chloranphenicol during the acute stage of the disease
Over a two-year period more than 3,000 home visits and nearly 2,000 fecal cultures were made to detect carriers among both the index cases and their suspect contacts. Thirty-four carriers (7.4 per cent) of a minimum duration of two years and an average of 3.7 years' duration were detected and another eight carriers were found among the contacts
Attention is drown to the following associations: the ratio of carriers increases with age and depending on the length of time elapsed between the first sypmptoms and treatment; the ratio is significantly higher when there has been a relapse; there is observable association between being a carrier and the presence of liver disorders
The rate of typhoid fever among contacts exposed to a proven carrier was five times higher than among the families in which no carrier was detected(AU)
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Typhoid Fever/therapy , Chloramphenicol/therapy , Prevalence , ChileABSTRACT
Now many typhoid fever patients who have been treated with chloramphenicol during the acute phase of their illness remain carriers of Salmonella typhi after their release? A study in Chile identified 7.4 per cent of such cases and made it possible to suggest factors of possible etiological significance.
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Typhoid Fever , Chloramphenicol , Chile , PrevalenceABSTRACT
A study of 460 female patients who had been diagnosed as typhoid fever cases and dismissed from the "Hospital de Infecciosos" in Santiago, Chile, during the period 1960-1064 was made for the purpose of determining the rate of Salmonella typhi carriers among them. All of the patients had been treated with chloranphenicol during the acute stage of the disease
Over a two-year period more than 3,000 home visits and nearly 2,000 fecal cultures were made to detect carriers among both the index cases and their suspect contacts. Thirty-four carriers (7.4 per cent) of a minimum duration of two years and an average of 3.7 years' duration were detected and another eight carriers were found among the contacts
Attention is drown to the following associations: the ratio of carriers increases with age and depending on the length of time elapsed between the first sypmptoms and treatment; the ratio is significantly higher when there has been a relapse; there is observable association between being a carrier and the presence of liver disorders
The rate of typhoid fever among contacts exposed to a proven carrier was five times higher than among the families in which no carrier was detected(AU)