Fact sheets

Typhoid and paratyphoid fact sheet (PDF 198KB)

Public Health action

• Australian Immunisation Handbook

• Communicable Disease Guidelines, for teachers, child care workers, local government authorities and medical practitioners. Department of Health, Western Australia

• Therapeutic Guidelines: Antibiotic. Therapeutic Guidelines Limited: Melbourne

• OD 0103/08 Public Health Intervention for Sporadic Enteric Notifications

• OD 0303/10 Guidelines for exclusion of people with enteric infections and their contacts from work, school and child-care settings 

Notifiable disease data and reports

• Up-to-date Typhoid Fever notification data

• General infectious disease reports

Additional sources of information

• Control of Communicable Diseases Manual  

Exclusion

Exclude from work, school, and other situations where disease transmission may occur for 24 hours after case becomes asymptomatic and has formed stools.
Enteric precautions for hospitalised and institutionalised patients.

Additional precautions for high risk cases (health care workers, food handlers, child care workers, children in child care or faecally incontinent): exclude until has had three negative faecal specimens collected at least 24 hours apart, commencing at least 48 hours after cessation of antibiotic therapy and not before one month after onset of illness.

Additional precautions for high risk (eg health care workers, food handlers, child care workers, children in child care or faecally incontinent) contacts of the case during the time that the case was thought to have acquired their infection: exclude until two consecutive faecal specimens taken at least 24 hours apart.

Case definition

Only confirmed cases should be notified.

Confirmed case

A confirmed case requires laboratory definitive evidence only.

Laboratory definitive evidence

Isolation or detection of Salmonella typhi.