| typhoid fever |
A disease caused by Salmonella typhosa. It enters the body through infected food, seafood, milk, water or a person with the typhoid germs. Symptoms are high fever, diarrhea, headache, ulcers of the intestine, weakness, hemorrhages and chills.
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| typhoid fever |
An acute infectious disease caused by bacterium in impure food and water producing a prolonged, debilitating fever and diarrhea.
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| typhoid fever |
An infectious, often-fatal disease, usually occurring in the summer months -- characterized by intestinal inflammation and ulceration. The name came from the disease's similarity to typhus (see below). Synonym: enteric fever.
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| typhoid b. |
Salmonella typhi.
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| typhoid f. |
an acute generalized, systemic febrile illness caused by Salmonella typhi, usually spread by ingestion of contaminated food and water, and characterized by sustained bacteremia and invasion by the pathogen and multiplication within the mononuclear phagocytic cells of the liver, spleen, lymph nodes, and Peyer's patches of the ileum, associated with prolonged hectic fever, malaise, transient characteristic skin rash (rose spots), abdominal pain, splenomegaly, bradycardia, delirium, and leukopenia; significant intestinal hemorrhages and frank perforation may be late complications. See also paratyphoid f. Called also typhoid.
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