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| Year : 2021 | Volume
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A rare case of Salmonella meningitis and hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis
Nimisha S Dange1, Vishal Sawant1, Lona Dash2, Alpana Santosh Kondekar1
1 Department of Pediatrics, Topiwala National Medical College and BYL Nair Charitable Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
2 Department of Microbiology, Topiwala National Medical College and BYL Nair Charitable Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Alpana Santosh Kondekar
Department of Pediatrics, 1st Floor, College Building, Topiwala National Medical College and BYL Nair Charitable Hospital, Dr. Al Nair Road, Mumbai Central, Mumbai - 400 008, Maharashtra
India
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DOI: 10.4103/jgid.jgid_224_20
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Enteric fever is a common infectious disease of the tropical world. Common age group involved is children aged between 5 and 10 years. In addition to diarrhea, it may lead to extraintestinal infections including aseptic meningitis, hepatitis, cholecystitis, acute abdomen, intestinal perforation, pneumonia, psychosis, and ataxia. Hematologic complications leading to hemophagocytosis have a prevalence of < 1%. Salmonella meningitis has an incidence of 6% with poor prognosis neurological sequelae. We report a rare case of enteric fever that presented with hemophagocytic syndrome and S. meningitis. Response to third-generation cephalosporins is dramatic, eventually giving good prognosis.
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