A 35-year-old woman from Mumbai with enteric fever (confirmed by blood culture for Salmonella typhi) develops high fever, altered mental status, and signs of meningitis on day 5 of illness. Lumbar puncture shows lymphocytic pleocytosis. What is the drug of choice for this complicated enteric fever with encephalitis?

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