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Diagnosis of Salmonella typhi by Culture of Duodenal String Capsule

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dc.contributor.author Benavente, Luis
dc.contributor.author Gotuzzo Herencia, José Eduardo
dc.contributor.author Guerra, Jorge
dc.contributor.author Grados, Oscar
dc.contributor.author Guerra, Humberto
dc.date.accessioned 2022-10-08T14:30:30Z
dc.date.available 2022-10-08T14:30:30Z
dc.date.issued 1981
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/12261
dc.description.abstract To the Editor: The present outbreak of typhoid fever in the city of Lima has made it imperative for us to improve the bacteriologic diagnosis of this disease. On the assumption that duodenal secretions might contain appreciable numbers of Salmonella typhi during the illness, we have started sampling these contents with a string-capsule procedure. The sampling period was reduced to three hours, enabling us to include ambulatory patients. We obtained the best results by dropping a 25-cm length of the bile stained string into selenite enrichment broth. This procedure was tested against the highly successful bone-marrow culture and a single blood... en_US
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher Massachusetts Medical Society
dc.relation.ispartofseries New England Journal of Medicine
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject Bacteriological Techniques en_US
dc.subject Capsules en_US
dc.subject Comparative Study en_US
dc.subject Duodenum en_US
dc.subject Human en_US
dc.subject Salmonella typhi en_US
dc.subject Typhoid Fever en_US
dc.title Diagnosis of Salmonella typhi by Culture of Duodenal String Capsule en_US
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJM198101013040117
dc.relation.issn 1533-4406


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