Original Research Article
Year: 2016 | Month: October | Volume: 6 | Issue: 10 | Pages: 216-220
Prevalence of Typhoid Fever among Population in Shendi Locality River Nile State of Sudan
Ahmed Elnadif Ahmed Elmanssury1, Safa Abdalla Elnour2
1Department of Public Health, Faculty of Public Health and Health Informatics, Qassim University, KSA.
2Department of Epidemiology, Ministry of Health - Kordufan North State - Sudan.
Corresponding Author: Ahmed Elnadif Ahmed Elmanssury
ABSTRACT
Background: Infection with Salmonella enteric a serotype Typhi (the causative agent of typhoid fever) causes an estimated 20 million cases of typhoid fever and 200,000 deaths annually worldwide. In the United States, typhoid fever is now a rare disease, with about 400 laboratory-confirmed cases reported per year. Not all cases are diagnosed; however, the total annual number of Salmonella serotypes Typhi infections is estimated at 5,750 cases per year, 1,900 of them acquired in the United States.
Objective: The study was aimed at determining the prevalence and knowledge of population about typhoid fever.
Materials and Methods: In this study, 384 households were included. Questionnaire and observation was used as tools for data collection. The households was selected through a multistage cluster-sampling technique to determine the prevalence of typhoid disease, 384 respondents was selected through systemic random sampling.
Results: The overall prevalence of typhoid disease was 46.4% amongst the population surveyed. The study showed that the knowledge and awareness among the general population about typhoid disease is high 84.6%, and the study revealed that typhoid disease was more prevalent among age group (11-20 year) which represent (38.8%) of person who has typhoid disease.
Conclusions: Typhoid fever continues to be a major public health problem in Sudan. The study showed that prevalence of typhoid is high (46.4%) of study population have typhoid disease, although the knowledge of population is showed high also (84.6%).
Key words: prevalence, typhoid fever, Salmonella, knowledge, infection.