Clinical, Laboratory, Serological and Radiological Features of Enteric Fever as a Cause of Acute Undifferentiated Febrile Illness Among the Patients Admitted in the Department of Medicine at Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India

Acute Undifferentiated Febrile syndromes (such as fever-rash, fever-myalgia, fever-arthralgia, fever-hemorrhage and fever-jaundice) have overlapping etiologies, which makes their diagnosis and management even more challenging. The purpose of this article was to describe the clinical, laboratory, serological and radiological features of Enteric Fever as a cause of Acute Undifferentiated Febrile Illness among the patients admitted in the Department of Medicine at Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India. the mean age of the study participants suffering from enteric fever was found to be 28.1 days. Among all the patients of enteric fever, only 19% of the individuals suffered from arthralgia various 38% of the individual suffered from myalgia, 22% of the individuals presented with nausea and vomiting and 6% of the individuals had the retrobulbar pain at the time of admission.