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Definition: Typhoid Fever |
Typhoid FeverNoun1. Serious infection marked by intestinal inflammation and ulceration; caused by Salmonella typhosa ingested with food or water. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | An acute systemic febrile infection caused by Salmonella typhi. (references) |
Medicine | The most important member of the enteric group of fevers which also includes the paratyphoids. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Typhoid Fever is a illness caused by a bacteria named Salmonella typhi. It is very common worldwide, and can only be carried in the human bloodstream and intestinal tract. It is transmitted by food or water contaminated with the bacteria from an infected person, or by sewage containing the bacteria. After multiplying in the body of the infected person, symptoms include a high fever from 103o to 104o F (39o to 40o C). Weakness, headaches, lack of appetite, and stomach pains are common. Typhoid symptons may include a rash of spots that are flat and rose-colored. It is possible to die from Typhoid fever. Extreme symptoms of intestinal perforation, delusions, and confusion also are possible. Antibiotics, such as ampicillin, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, and ciprofloxacin are commonly used in treating typhoid fever.
A person may become a carrier of typhoid fever, suffering no symptoms, but capable of infecting others. In 1907, Mary Mallon became the first American carrier to be identified and traced. According to the Center for Disease Control approximately 1 of 20 people who contract typhoid continue to carry the disease after they recover.
When untreated, typhoid fever persists for three weeks to a month. Death occurs in between 1 out of 9 cases and 1 out of 3 cases.
Historically, typhoid fever has claimed the lives of several famous people, including Rudyard Kipling, Franz Schubert, and the British prince-consort Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
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Synonyms: Typhoid FeverSynonyms: enteric fever (n), typhoid (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Typhoid Fever |
| English words defined with "typhoid fever": chloramphenicol, Chloromycetin ♦ Gastric fever ♦ Mallon, Mary Mallon ♦ paratyphoid, paratyphoid fever, petechia, Peyer's glands, Pituitous fever ♦ salmonella, Salmonella typhi, Salmonella typhosa ♦ typhoid bacillus, Typhoid Mary, Typhomalarial ♦ Widal test, Widal's test. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "typhoid fever": ophthalmic reaction, ophthalmoreaction ♦ Salmonella Vaccines ♦ TYPHI, Typhoid-Paratyphoid Vaccines. (references) |
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 | Salmonella typhi, the bacterium responsible for causing Typhoid Fever, has a preference for the gallbladder, and if present will colonize the surface of gallstones, which is how people become long term carriers of the disease. Credit: CDC. |  | Symptoms of typhoid fever may include a sustained fever as high as 103° to 104° F (39° to 40° C), weakness, stomach pains, headache, loss of appetite. In some cases, patients have a rash of flat, rose-colored spots. Credit: CDC. |
 | Though not a very common sequela, S. typhi, the bacterium responsible for typhoid fever, can cause myocarditis. Note the leukocytic infiltrate present in the myocardium. Credit: CDC. |  | Typhoid Fever. : This Notice is Posted in Compliance with Law. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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Health | Get vaccinated against typhoid fever. (references) | |
If you suspect you have typhoid fever, see a doctor immediately. (references) | ||
Typhoid fever can be prevented and can usually be treated with antibiotics. (references) | ||
Human Rights | Kenya | According to the Government, 464 prisoners died in jails during the first 11 months of the year, compared with 768 in 2000. Deaths were due chiefly to tuberculosis, dysentery, anemia, malaria, heart attack, typhoid fever, and HIV/AIDS, for which there is little access to health care and medicine. (references) |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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typhoid fever | 167 |
picture of typhoid fever | 8 |
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| Language | Translations for "typhoid fever"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | коремен тиф (enteric fever, typhoid, typhus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | typhus abdominalis, tyfus-feber, tyfoidfeber, gastrisk feber. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | typhus abdominalis, tyfus-koorts, tyfus abdominalis, buiktyfus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | lavantauti. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | typhus abdominal, fièvre typhoïde, febris typhoidea. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Typhus abdominalis, Unterleibstyphus, Nervenfieber, Ileotyphus, Febris typhoides, Febris nervosa sive enteria Status typhoides, Enterotyphus, Bauchtyphus, Abdominaltyphus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κοιλιακός Ï„Ïφος, τυφοειδήσ πυÏετόσ, τυφοειδής πυÏετός. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tÃfusz (gaol-fever, jail fever, typhoid, typhus), hastÃfusz (camp fever, enteric, typhoid, typhus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tifo addominale, tifo (typhus), febbre tifoide. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | yn typhoid, yn chiassaghey breck. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yphoidtay everfay tifo abdominal, febre tifóide (jail-fever, typhoid). (various references) febrã tifoidã (enteric fever, typhoid). (various references) брюшной тип. (various references) tifus intestinal, fiebre tifoidea. (various references) tyfus (typhus), tyfoidfeber. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | typhus abdominalis. (various references) |
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"Typhoid Fever" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: typhiod fever. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-f-h-i-o-p-r-t-v-y" | |
-3 letters: overhyped. | |
-4 letters: etherify, heredity, overedit, overhype, piedfort, pothered, profited, proteide, thievery, thyreoid, trophied. | |
-5 letters: deprive, diether, diopter, dioptre, dithery, epidote, firepot, frothed, heftier, hovered, overdye, overfed, overtip, perfidy, peridot, petrify, phytoid, piefort, pivoted, poverty, predive, preedit, prithee, proteid, provide, prythee, reedify, retyped, revoted, riveted, thereof, theroid, thieved, thrived, thyroid, tripody, typhoid, yperite. | |
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