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Description

Patients with certain risk factors are more likely to have more symptomatic or invasive forms of enteric Salmonellosis. A patient with one or more risk factors may benefit from closer monitoring and more aggressive therapy.


 

General risk factors:

(1) age (young children <= 5 years of age, or the elderly >= 70 years of age)

 

Gastric and intestinal related factors:

(1) achlorhydria

(2) regular antacid use

(3) gastrectomy or gastroenterostomy

(4) impaired small and large bowel motility

(5) schistosomiasis

 

Hematologic risk factors:

(1) hemolytic anemia, including sickle cell anemia

(2) acute hemolysis associated with malaria and bartonellosis

 

Immunologic risk factors:

(1) immunosuppressive therapy

(2) malnutrition

(3) congenital immune deficiency syndromes

(4) acquired immune deficiency, including HIV disease

(5) malignancies, including leukemia and malignant lymphoma

(6) collagen vascular diseases

 


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