typhoid fever

Examples of typhoid fever in the following topics:

• Typhoid Fever

  • Typhoid fever, also known as typhoid, is a common, worldwide bacterial disease.
  • The term "enteric fever" is a collective term that refers to typhoid and paratyphoid.
  • This delirium gives typhoid its nickname of "nervous fever".
  • Typhoid fever in most cases is not fatal.
  • Summarize the four stages of untreated typhoid fever and methods of preventing it

• Staphylococcal Food Poisoning

  • Rose spots on the chest of a patient with typhoid fever due to the bacterium Salmonella typhi

• Salmonellosis

  • Salmonellosis is an infection by the Salmonella bacteria that results in diarrhea, fever, vomiting, and abdominal cramps.
  • Most people infected with Salmonella develop diarrhea, fever, vomiting, and abdominal cramps 12 to 72 hours after infection.
  • At the hospital, the patient may receive intravenous fluids to treat the dehydration, and may be given medications to relieve symptoms, such as fever reducers.
  • The typhoidal form of Salmonella can lead to typhoid fever.
  • Typhoid fever is a life-threatening illness, and about four hundred cases are reported in the United States each year, with 75% of those acquired while traveling out of the country.

• Exceptions to Koch's Postulates

  • Koch abandoned the requirement of the first postulate altogether when he discovered asymptomatic carriers of cholera and, later, of typhoid fever.

• Gammaproteobacteria

  • (enteritis and typhoid fever), Yersinia pestis (plague), Vibrio cholerae (cholera), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (lung infections in hospitalized or cystic fibrosis patients), and Escherichia coli (food poisoning).

• Finding Patient Zero and Tracking Diseases

  • Other prominent "Patient Zeroes" include Typhoid Mary.
  • She was the first person in the United States identified as an asymptomatic carrier of the pathogen associated with typhoid fever.
  • Typhoid carrier.
  • "In this manner the famous 'Typhoid Mary' infected family after family

• High Pressure

  • Experiments were also performed with anthrax, typhoid, and tuberculosis, which was a potential health risk for the researchers.
  • Indeed, before the process was improved, one employee of the Experimental Station became ill with typhoid fever.

• The Vocabulary Epidemiology

  • Mary Mallon (1870-1938) was nicknamed "Typhoid Mary," an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever.
  • She worked as a cook for several families in New York City at the beginning of the 20th century and infected many of them with typhoid.
  • However, this drawing inaccurately depicts the spread of typhoid, which was not by breathing, but by direct contamination from fecal particles.

• Disease Reservoirs and Epidemics

  • An epidemic disease is not required to be contagious, and the term has been applied to West Nile fever.
  • The conditions which govern the outbreak of epidemics include infected food supplies, such as drinking water contaminated by waste from people with cholera or typhoid fever or ‘fast food' products contaminated with salmonella.

• Tularemia

  • Tularemia (also known as Pahvant Valley plague, rabbit fever, deer fly fever, and Ohara's fever) is a serious infectious disease caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis.
  • Depending on the site of infection, tularemia has six characteristic clinical symptoms: ulceroglandular, glandular, oropharyngeal, pneumonic, oculoglandular, and typhoidal.
  • In most susceptible mammals, the clinical signs include fever, lethargy, anorexia, signs of septicemia, and possibly, death.
  • Fever is moderate or very high.
  • Inflammation spreads to the lymph nodes, which enlarge and may suppurate (mimicking bubonic plague), accompanied by a high fever.