pattern of liver function tests in enteric fever

This study was performed on 50 patients clinically diagnosed as enterica. Only 35 of them proved to have enterica. 20 out of the 35 showed disturbed liver function tests [LFT] and 5 out of 15 of those with negative blood culture and low agglutinin titre also had disturbed LFT. HBsAg was detected only in 6 patients with disturbed LFT, denoting a carrier state or incubated virus hepatitis while the remaining patients with disturbed LFT were negative for HBsAg indicating that enterica may change the pattern of LFT and be misdiagnosed as virus hepatitis