Complications and mortality of typhoid fever: A global systematic review and meta-analysis - 08/12/20
Highlights |
• | Complications and death are considerable among hospitalized patients with typhoid fever. |
• | Case fatality ratio of typhoid fever was higher in Africa compared to Asia. |
• | Among studies in Africa, 20% of patients with typhoid intestinal perforation died. |
• | Delays in care were correlated with increased typhoid case fatality ratio in Asia. |
Summary |
Objectives |
Updated estimates of the prevalence of complications and case fatality ratio (CFR) among typhoid fever patients are needed to understand disease burden.
Methods |
Articles published in PubMed and Web of Science from 1 January 1980 through 29 January 2020 were systematically reviewed for hospital or community-based non-surgical studies that used cultures of normally sterile sites, and hospital surgical studies of typhoid intestinal perforation (TIP) with intra- or post-operative findings suggestive of typhoid. Prevalence of 21 pre-selected recognized complications of typhoid fever, crude and median (interquartile range) CFR, and pooled CFR estimates using a random effects meta-analysis were calculated.
Results |
Of 113 study sites, 106 (93.8%) were located in Asia and Africa, and 84 (74.3%) were non-surgical. Among non-surgical studies, 70 (83.3%) were hospital-based. Of 10,355 confirmed typhoid patients, 2,719 (26.3%) had complications. The pooled CFR estimate among non-surgical patients was 0.9% for the Asia region and 5.4% for the Africa region. Delay in care was significantly correlated with increased CFR in Asia (r = 0.84; p<0.01). Among surgical studies, the median CFR of TIP was 15.5% (6.7–24.1%) per study.
Conclusions |
Our findings identify considerable typhoid-associated illness and death that could be averted with prevention measures, including typhoid conjugate vaccine introduction.
Le texte complet de cet article est disponible en PDF.Keywords : Typhoid fever, Case fatality ratio, Meta-analysis, Mortality, Intestinal perforation
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Vol 81 - N° 6
P. 902-910 - décembre 2020 Retour au numéro
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