Laval Enrique
Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile.
Rev Chilena Infectol. 2017 Oct;34(5):491-493. doi: 10.4067/S0716-10182017000500491.
During the historical development of typhoid fever in Chile, its confusion with other infectious diseases is particularly noteworthy, especially with murine typhus, a problem that was mainly resolved during the 1918 epidemic. The importance of chloramphenicol treatment is also highlighted, which meant an enormous improvement in typhoid/paratyphoid fevers, in combination with public health and health education actions that allowed to almost eliminate these infectious diseases in our country.
