Penelitian ini merupakan studi retrospektif dengan menggunakan disain deskriptif mengenai alternatif pengobatan demam tifoid pada 182 pasien anak di Rumah Sakit Fatmawati Jakarta. Kloramfenikol masih merupakan terapi pilihan terhadap Salmolella typhi. Hasil lain menunjukkan bahwa seftriakson merupakan salah satu antibiotika alternatif yang menjanjikan bagi pengobatan demam tifoid anak.

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The Pattern of the Use of Antibiotics in the Treatment of Children with Typhoid Fever in Fatmawati Hospital Jakarta, 2001-2002. This study was a retrospective study using a descriptive design on the treatment of typhoid fever involving 182 children at Fatmawati Hospital Jakarta. Chloramphenicol was still the drug of choice againts Salmolella typhi. It was also shown that ceftriaxone was an alternative drug used rather frequently for typhoid fever in children.