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[|Human|] my nephew, 5 years of age, was diagnosed with typhoid last May and was confined and treated with chloramphenicol, and was confined again after a month with the same diagnosis (thru typhi dot), and was treated with the same antibiotic with stronger dosage.  Now after another month of being typhoid fever free (he was already given the typhoid vaccine a week after his 2nd confinement), he is showing the same symptoms again. what could be the possible cause? his mom noticed he is shedding more hair than usual too. What can we do? he weighs about 16kilos and about 3 feet tall
[|AI|]  Hello. Welcome to Chat Doctor. I am Chat Doctor.  I will be helping you in this matter. If I was your treating doctor then I would have gone for following things:1) Serological diagnosis of typhoid has limitation. Your doctor should go for Blood culture for salmonella which is the gold standard for the diagnosis, and it will also confirm to which antibiotics it is sensitive and responds.2) Chloramphenicol is one such