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Enteric fever is a medical term encompassing two types of salmonellosis, which, specifically, are typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever. [1] Enteric fever is a potentially life-threatening acute febrile systemic infection and is diagnosed by isolating a pathogen on culture. [1] [copyright violation] Typhoid fever is caused by the Salmonella ...
Typhoid, is spread by eating or drinking food, or water, contaminated with the feces of an infected person. Risk Factor. Risk factors include, poor sanitation, and poor hygiene. Risk Factor 2. Those who travel in the developing world, are also at risk.
Bush typhus, mite typhus, jungle typhus [1] Orientia tsutsugamushi. Specialty. Infectious disease. Scrub typhus or bush typhus is a form of typhus caused by the intracellular parasite Orientia tsutsugamushi, a Gram-negative α-proteobacterium of family Rickettsiaceae first isolated and identified in 1930 in Japan.
Susie Reed (adopted aboriginal American child) Walter Reed (September 13, 1851 – November 22, 1902) was a U.S. Army physician who in 1901 led the team that confirmed the theory of Cuban doctor Carlos Finlay that yellow fever is transmitted by a particular mosquito species rather than by direct contact.
Scarlet fever. Scarlet fever, also known as scarlatina, is an infectious disease caused by Streptococcus pyogenes, a Group A streptococcus (GAS). [3] It most commonly affects children between five and 15 years of age. [1] The signs and symptoms include a sore throat, fever, headache, swollen lymph nodes, and a characteristic rash. [1]
The Vi capsular polysaccharide vaccine (or ViCPS) is a typhoid vaccine recommended by the World Health Organization for the prevention of typhoid (another is Ty21a ). The vaccine was first licensed in the US in 1994 and is made from the purified Vi capsular polysaccharide from the Ty2 Salmonella Typhi strain; it is a subunit vaccine .
Alice Mary Smith. Nicol Smith. Edward Solomon. Thoby Stephen. William Stephens (dean of Winchester)
