Prevalence of Enteric Fever Pathogens Isolated from Blood Culture at a Tertiary Care Centre.

5 , 7 The higher prevalence of Salmonella partayphi A indicating an increasing trend of this organism in recent years 3 , 15 might be due to high degree of clinical suspicion with mild fever cases being investigated for enteric fever, changing host susceptibility, change in virulence of the organism and widespread use of vaccines and quinolones against Salmonella Typhi in the past decade. 5 Salmonella isolates were more common in an age group below 30 years which correlates with the study by Sharma et al. indicating that typhoid fever is most common in pre-school and school age children. 11 Enteric fever pathogens were isolated most in the month of September and August.

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