FEVER

(Chief Complaint)

IMMUNE SYSTEM DIGESTIVE SYSTEM

PREDISPOSING FACTORS PRECIPITATING FACTROS

*AGE: 30 Y/0 Ingestion of foods or fluids *poor hand hygiene
*Immunocomprimised contaminated with *Eating food from outside
salmonella typhi bacteria *unboiled or unpurified drinking water
*unsanitary preparation of foods

Bacteria enter the stomach

Bacteria invade the Peyer’s

patches of the intestinal wall

Enter bloodstream via lymphatics

Inject toxin known as the effector proteins into the

intestinal cells

Bacteria induced macrophage apoptosis breaking out into

the blood stream.

AS EVIDENCED BY:
THYPOID FEVER *THYPIDOT RESULTS IgM (POSITIVE)
*high fever and chills
*rash/rose colored spots
*fatigue/weakness

COMPLICATIONS: AS EVIDENCED BY:

*PROCALCITONIN RESULTS 42.03 mg/dL
SEPSIS (severe sepsis)