The smell of plague has been compared with the odor of May flowers, and that of
typhus with a Cossack.
Also, comparisons of S.
typhi with E. coli and other S. enterica genomes showed that 204 S. typhi genes are nonfunctioning.
Not exact matches
Among them were prolonged starvation and exposure; being worked beyond my endurance and strength; every cut and bruise turning into festering wounds accompanied by high fever; diphtheria, dysentery, hepatitis, and a bout
with typhus that very nearly killed me.
Typhoid fever is caused by systemic (body - wide) infection
with Salmonella enterica
Typhi.
Conducted by Prof Rose McGready and Assoc. Prof Daniel Henry Paris from the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU) in Mae Sot, Thailand, and the Mahidol Oxford Research Unit (MORU) in Bangkok, affiliated to Oxford University, UK, in collaboration
with Prof John Antony Jude Prakash of the Dept. of Clinical Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India, the study, «Pregnancy outcome in relation to treatment of Murine
typhus and Scrub
typhus infection: a fever cohort and a case series analysis,» will be published in the November 20th, 2014 issue of PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
Over the next decade, Levine's group expanded to challenges
with Salmonella
typhi, E. coli, and rotavirus.
We further demonstrated that while S. Typhimurium SptP is stable intracellularly within S
Typhi, S
Typhi SptP is unstable, although stability could be recovered following replacement of the chaperone - binding domain
with that of S. Typhimurium.
Recently, a Salmonella
Typhi isolate producing CTX - M - 15 extended spectrum β - lactamase (ESBL) and
with decreased ciprofloxacin susceptibility was isolated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
A unique feature of typhoid infection is asymptomatic carriage within the gallbladder, which is linked
with S
Typhi transmission.
Overall, we found that S
Typhi exhibits a specific response to bile, especially
with regards to virulence gene expression, which could impact pathogenesis and transmission.
When a large corporation's water facilities in Ecuador unleash a
typhus outbreak, the local militia (who is in cahoots
with said corporation) guns down the village to cover up the incident.
The Special Pathogens Branch, part of The Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, deals
with some of the really nasty stuff - diseases like Ebola, Rift Valley fever, and Lassa fever (and before you ask, a Rickettsial disease is one caused by any Rickettsia bacteria, which are carried by parasites such as ticks, fleas and lice, and cause diseases such as
typhus).
A pooch
with fleas is also susceptible to contracting tapeworms, anemia, mange,
typhus and even the bubonic plague.
Although infected fleas may hitch a ride on feral cats, the chance of becoming infected
with flea - borne
typhus via a feral cat is extremely low.
FLEA - BORNE
TYPHUS ALERT FOR LOCAL SANTA ANA COMMUNITY SANTA ANA, CA (May 25, 2012)-- Earlier this week Santa Ana officials were notified by O.C. Vector Control that, as of last Friday, there is a Santa Ana resident
with a confirmed case of
Typhus.
Geographic association of Rickettsia felis - Infected opossums
with human murine
typhus, Texas.
A suburban focus of endemic
typhus in Los Angeles County: association
with seropositive domestic cats and opossums.
He had recently signed a contract
with the Department of Defense to study
typhus in the armed forces.