[Typhoid fever in adult patients in Ouagadougou (analytic study of 124 cases) (author's transl)].

The authors study clinical and evolutive aspects of 124 cases of typho-paratyphoïdic fever carried out in Ouagadougou. Main features are emphasized and compared to series previously recorded in other tropical countries: -the most frequent form is the conventional one with fever-diarrhoea-vomiting, headache and abdominal pain; -10,4 p. 100 of the cases present further complication, with 13 fatal issues, mostly due to acute encephalitis and to the delay reporting to the hospital; -treatment raised no special problem, Eberth bacillus which is the most frequently detected germ, being still very sensible to phenicoles derivatives.