typhoid fever

An acute, highly infectious disease of humans caused by a bacterium (Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi) spread chiefly by contaminated food or water and characterized by high fever, headache, coughing, reddish spots on the skin, and sometimes intestinal hemorrhage.

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typhoid fever

(Pathology) an acute infectious disease characterized by high fever, rose-coloured spots on the chest or abdomen, abdominal pain, and occasionally intestinal bleeding. It is caused by the bacillus Salmonella typhosa ingested with food or water. Also called: enteric fever

[C19: from typhus + -oid; so called because the symptoms resemble those of typhus]

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ty·phoid fever

(tī′foid′)

A life-threatening disease caused by bacteria and characterized by high fever, intestinal bleeding, and pink spots on the skin. It is transmitted through contaminated food and water.

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typhoid fever

A bacterial infection of the intestines, causing a rash, fever, and diarrhea, possibly leading to pneumonia. A vaccine is available against this.

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Noun

typhoid fever - serious infection marked by intestinal inflammation and ulceration; caused by Salmonella typhosa ingested with food or water

enteric fever, typhoid

infectious disease - a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact

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ty·phoid fe·ver

n. fiebre tifoidea, infección abdominal aguda que es causada por una bacteria de la clase Salmonella y que se manifiesta con infl. abdominal, postración, fiebre alta y dolor de cabeza.

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The doctors open the body and say with an air of profound learning, `The subject his died of a tumor on the liver, or of typhoid fever!'"

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You were devoted to her as a little girl, and nothing will describe her goodness to you through the typhoid fever. No--it is just the same thing everywhere."

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Now, I knew that them two houses in Lauriston Gardens was empty on account of him that owns them who won't have the drains seed to, though the very last tenant what lived in one of them died o' typhoid fever. I was knocked all in a heap therefore at seeing a light in the window, and I suspected as something was wrong.

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They fished him out and brought him here, and ten days later he developed typhoid fever from swallowing Thames water."

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The remaining forty received sentences varying from thirty to forty-five years; while Arthur Simpson, referred to in the Manuscript as being ill of typhoid fever at the time of the explosion, received only fifteen years.

And at the same time were arrested all socialist Congressmen in Washington, including the unfortunate Simpson, who lay ill with typhoid fever in his hotel.

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I moved on, stealthy, absorbed, undecided; asking myself earnestly: "What on earth am I going to do with him?" That exclusive preoccupation of my mind was as dangerous to Senor Ortega as typhoid fever would have been.

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I came to typhoid fever - read the symptoms - discovered that I had typhoid fever, must have had it for months without knowing it - wondered what else I had got; turned up St.

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Lack of chlorination to water from Lake Chivero has caused many water borne diseases such as Cholera, Diarrhoea and Typhoid Fever. The ZANU PF leaders should admit that they have failed to run the country well because access to water is a basic need that Zimbabweans should be enjoying.

Water crisis in Zimbabwe

Typhoid fever is caused by the Salmonella bacteria which has been a human pathogen for thousands of years.

Taking on typhoid

It is transmitted via poor sanitation, over-crowding, and ingestion of contaminated food or water.1 According to a prospective study conducted by WHO, high incidence of typhoid fever was found in five Asian countries, with Pakistan, India, Indonesia leading and a comparatively lower incidence in China and Vietnam.2 This geographical dissemination portrays the crucial need to identify fever in its early stages and develop antibiotics to combat the superbug.

Tough times call for rapid techniques: combatting the typhoid superbug

KARACHI -- Sindh Health Department has registered 7,109 Extensively Drug Resistant (XDR) typhoid fever cases across the Sindh province from November 2016 to 05 May 2019 out of which 69 per cent cases were recorded in Karachi alone.

No respite from XDR typhoid fever in Karachi