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.

• History of Bacterial Diseases

  • The scientists identified nucleotide sequences from a pathogenic bacterium, Salmonella enterica serovar typhi , which causes typhoid fever.
  • Among these are two viral diseases (dengue fever and yellow fever) and three bacterial diseases (diphtheria, cholera, and bubonic plague).
  • Symptoms include swollen lymph nodes, fever, seizure, vomiting of blood, and (c) gangrene.
  • Salmonella enterica serovar typhi, the causative agent of typhoid fever, is a gram-negative, rod-shaped gamma protobacterium.
  • Typhoid fever, which is spread through feces, causes intestinal hemorrhage, high fever, delirium and dehydration.

• 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).

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.