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Division Clinical criteria

United Kingdom

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Any person with at least one of the following two:

  • Onset of sustained fever

  • At least two of the following four:

    • Headache

    • Relative bradycardia

    • Non productive cough

    • Diarrhoea, constipation, malaise or abdominal pain

Paratyphoid fever has the same symptoms as typhoid fever, however usually a milder course.