Abstract
THE current literature is replete with accounts1 2 3 4 of typhoid fever occurring in patients who had previously received prophylactic inoculations. Furthermore, there are numerous reports dealing with asymptomatic carriers and the wide variety of therapeutic measures, both medical5 6 7 8 9 10 and surgical, designed to eradicate the organism. The case of chronic typhoid infection of the intestinal tract reported below presents several unique features: chronic dysentery of four years' duration due to Eberthella typhosa in a man who had been previously immunized against typhoid; absence of any antecedent febrile illness suggestive of typhoid fever; proctosigmoidoscopic evidence of chronic colitis and x-ray changes involving the . . .
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