PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Sarah Logan AU - Channa Jayasena AU - Adnan Aali AU - Steve Ash AU - Fiona J Cooke TI - Typhoid without travel AID - 10.7861/clinmedicine.10-3-299 DP - 2010 Jun 01 TA - Clinical Medicine PG - 299--300 VI - 10 IP - 3 4099 - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/10/3/299.short 4100 - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/10/3/299.full SO - Clin Med2010 Jun 01; 10 AB - Typhoid fever should be considered in the diagnosis of any patient with a fever from the Asian community even in the absence of a travel history to an endemic region. Blood cultures taken prior to antibiotics are the best way of making the diagnosis early and preventing the complications that arise from a prolonged bacteraemia.