Prevalencia de portadores tíficos después del tratamiento con cloramfenicol / Prevalence of typhoid carriers after treatment with choramphenicol

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