Identification of the Disease and Vaccination In 1880, Karl Joseph Eberth, a German pathologist and bacteriologist, discovered a bacterium that he believed was
the cause of typhoid, and four years later, another German pathologist, Georg Theodor August Gaffky confirmed Eberth's results.
Not exact matches
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Chlorine effectively kills a large variety
of microbial waterborne pathogens, including those that can
cause typhoid fever, dysentery, cholera and Legionnaires» disease.
Their results, they add, «suggest that one
of the differences between [milder] gastroenteritis and [dangerous]
typhoid fever is that the pathogen
causing the latter disease evades neutrophil chemotaxis.»
In humans, Salmonella Dublin has higher hospitalization and fatality rates than other Salmonella types; it
causes systemic infection
of body tissues, similar to
typhoid.
Genome sequencers have deciphered the genetic codes
of two closely related varieties
of the same microbe, one
causing typhoid fever and another a common culprit in food poisoning.
This type
of salmonella, paratyphi C, can
cause enteric fever, a serious bacterial infection also known as
typhoid or paratyphoid fever.
Because the symptoms resemble human
typhoid fever
caused by STM, mice infected by STM provide a model system to investigate the development and immunology
of typhoid fever in humans.
Sanger Institute scientists performed whole genome sequencing
of typhoid samples from Pakistan to investigate the genetic
cause behind its high level
of antibiotic resistance.
This study shows the
typhoid strain
causing the outbreak acquired an additional piece
of DNA to become resistant to multiple antibiotics, including a third - generation antibiotic.
Salmonella Typhimurium
causes gastroenteritis (diarrhoea, vomiting, fever and abdominal cramps) while Salmonella Typhi
causes typhoid fever (high fever, weakness, stomach pains, headache and loss
of appetite).
Strains
of the various Salmonella enterica serovars
cause gastroenteritis or
typhoid fever in humans, with virulence depending on the action
of two type III secretion systems (Salmonella pathogenicity island 1 [SPI - 1] and SPI - 2).
Determining the true burden
of typhoidal Salmonellae infections is hindered by lack
of population - based studies and adequate laboratory diagnostics.The Strategic
Typhoid alliance across Africa and Asia study takes a systematic approach to measuring the age - stratified burden
of clinical and subclinical disease
caused by typhoidal Salmonellae infections at three high - incidence urban sites in Africa and Asia.