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Enteric fever continues to be a major cause of mortality and morbidity globally, particularly in poor resource settings. Lack of rapid diagnostic assays is a major driving factor for the empirical treatment of enteric fever. Salmonellae are food-born pathogens transfer through oral ingestion of contaminated food or water and causing disease in both healthy and immune-compromised people. Current study was designed for isolating and identifying Salmonella typhi from blood samples. This study was conducted on 39 patients from both genders suffering from typhoid fever. Their age range was 1 to 50 years. The samples were collected from different hospitals in Ujjain city. The effect of age, gender and residence on the frequency distribution of typhoid fever was also determined. The collected samples were tested by culture. The results showed that blood culture and serological techniques are used to isolate Salmonella typhi and Salmonella paratyphi