Quantitative bacterial counts in the bone marrow of Vietnamese patients with typhoid fever.

Van Be, Wain J, Phuong LT, Ho VA, Hien TT, Parry C. (2022)

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Bone marrow culture (BMC) is the reference standard for typhoid fever diagnosis. We studied the additional yield of BMC over blood culture (BC) and the relationship between quantitative BMC counts and severe disease.