Definition of typhoid fever
: a communicable disease marked especially by fever, diarrhea, prostration, headache, and intestinal inflammation and caused by a bacterium (Salmonella typhi)
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Waterborne diseases, like typhoid fever and cholera, are extremely dangerous — but they're not transmitted by rain drops.
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The marsh provided an environment for salmonella bacteria and other organisms capable of causing typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever.
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The original 43 acres was a donation of rancher Thomas Davis as a tribute to his wife Julia, who died of typhoid fever in 1907.
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Antibiotics are the only effective treatment for typhoid fever, a systemic infection with varying severity that can become life-threatening.
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The results, published in the Lancet last year, showed the vaccine to be 87 percent effective in preventing typhoid fever.
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Initial symptoms are easily mistaken for malaria or typhoid fever—body aches, sore throat, fever, nausea, diarrhea—before the disease progresses to organ failure, shock, and sometimes internal hemorrhaging.
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The spirit of the story arises from a tragic footnote in American history, when President Abraham Lincoln's 11-year-old son, Willie, died of typhoid fever during the Civil War.
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After getting abducted to try and cure a ship filled with men battling typhoid fever, Claire got to work during Sunday's installment of the Starz genre drama and found the source of the infection.
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First Known Use of typhoid fever
1829
TYPHOID FEVER Defined for Kids
typhoid fever
Definition of typhoid fever for Students
: a disease that spreads through contaminated food and water and in which there is fever, diarrhea, and great weakness
Medical Dictionary
typhoid fever
medical Definition of typhoid fever
: a communicable disease marked by fever, diarrhea, prostration, headache, splenomegaly, eruption of rose-colored spots, leukopenia, and intestinal inflammation and caused by a bacterium of the genus Salmonella (S. typhi)
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