NOUN
- serious infection marked by intestinal inflammation and ulceration; caused by Salmonella typhosa ingested with food or water
How To Use typhoid fever In A Sentence
- Typhoid fever is a serious infection caused by the bacterium Salmonella typhi.
- Giovannini describes a case of canities unguium in a patient of twenty-nine, following an attack of typhoid fever. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
- Typhoid fever immunization is recommended for travelers going to highly endemic areas in Central and South America, the Indian subcontinent, and Africa.
- As municipal water and sewer systems replaced backyard wells, cesspools, and privies, outbreaks of cholera, typhoid fever, dysentery, malaria, and typhus diminished.
- University of Melbourne to do research work on the agglutinin reactions in typhoid fever. Sir Frank MacFarlane Burnet - Biography
- It becomes "bactericidal," produces a bactericidal poison (called an alexin) which is usually present in normal blood, but is greatly increased when large numbers of certain poisonous microbes (_e. g._ those of typhoid fever) get into the blood. More Science From an Easy Chair
- Use of sand filtration and chlorine disinfectants attacked the problem leading to sharply falling rates of typhoid fever and other water-borne infections.
- Typhoid fever continues to be a global health problem, especially in the tropics and subtropics.
- In cases of typhoid fever caused by salmonella bacteria, early symptoms are the same.
- It becomes "bactericidal," produces a bactericidal poison (called an alexin) which is usually present in normal blood, but is greatly increased when large numbers of certain poisonous microbes (_e. g._ those of typhoid fever) get into the blood. More Science From an Easy Chair