Isolation And Identification of Salmonella typhi From Patients with Typhoid Fever in Babylon City in Iraq

Abstract

A total of 263 clinical samples were collected from the blood of patients with typhoid fever who attended Al-Hillah Surgical Teaching Hospital and private laboratories in AL-Hillah / Babylon province, during the period from February to August 2021. Only 50 (19%) of 263 people tested positive for S.typhi infection using blood culture, biochemical tests, and the VITEK-2 compact system. According to the findings, clinical samples were divided into 50 (19%) positive blood cultures for S.typhi and 213 (81%) negative cultures for S.typhi. The Widal test yielded 100% positive results for S.typhi, whereas the blood culture yielded only 23% positive results.