Table 1.

Details of patients and controls, with clinical laboratory investigations

	Control (Group 1)	Acute typhoid (Group 2)	Chronic typhoid carrier (Group 3)
Number	50	50	50
Age, months	304 ± 20.12	323 ± 19.42	353 ± 27.18
Sex, % female	50	65	78
Duration of fever, days	No fever	6 ± 3.0	12 ± 3.0
Culture test positivity, %	Negative	54	36
Typhidot IgG positivity, %	Negative	14	66
Typhidot IgM positivity, %	Negative	86	10