Tropical

Typhoid Severity

Counts severity and complication features in confirmed or suspected typhoid (Salmonella Typhi/Paratyphi) infection to guide admission, antibiotic route, and adjunctive therapy.

Altered mental status / encephalopathy

Shock or hypotension

Significant GI bleeding

Intestinal perforation (clinical or imaging)

Myocarditis (clinical or troponin rise)

Pneumonia or ARDS

Severe anemia (Hb < 7 g/dL)

Severe thrombocytopenia (< 50 ×10⁹/L)

Hepatitis (transaminases > 5× ULN, jaundice)

Paralytic ileus or marked abdominal distension

Source

Parry CM, Hien TT, Dougan G, White NJ, Farrar JJ. Typhoid fever. New England Journal of Medicine 2002.

PMID 12456854 Ask House about this