Adults and children 1 year and older with typhoid or paratyphoid fever who are well enough to be treated in the community

For adults and children 1 year and older with typhoid or paratyphoid fever who are well enough to be treated in the community and can tolerate oral therapy, use initiallyNabarro, 2022:

azithromycin 1 g (child: 20 mg/kg up to 1 g) orally, as a single dose on day 1, followed by 500 mg (child 10 mg/kg up to 500 mg) daily for a further 6 days¹. azithromycin azithromycin azithromycin

For adults and children 1 year and older who are unable to tolerate oral therapy, see Patients without sepsis or septic shock who have not recently returned from Pakistan.

Modify therapy as soon as susceptibility results are available; see Directed therapy for typhoid or paratyphoid fever.

¹ At the time or writing, azithromycin is not available on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) for this indication. See the PBS website for current information [URL].Return