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Typhoid Fever

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Typhoid fever (Typhus abdominalis, enteric fever) is an acute systemic infection caused by Salmonella typhi (Salmonella subspecies I, serovar typhi). The term “enteric fever” includes paratyphoid fever, which is the disease clinically similar to typhoid fever, but the fatality rate is much lower. It is caused by serovar S. paratyphi A, S. paratyphi B, S. paratyphi C, or S. sendai. Other serovars belonging to the same subspecies, such as S. choleraesuis, S. panama, S. dublin, etc., are known to have a high potentiality to cause septicemia and to give rise to pyemic lesions in the internal organs in man. The distinction between paratyphoid fever, except that caused by S. paratyphi A, and salmonella septicemia due to these serovars is by no means absolute. Infections due to S. typhi and S. paratyphi A, which are primarily adapted to man, are characterized by a long incubation period, 10 to 14 days, and those due to the others by a shorter incubation period, 12 to 36 h, and by their clinical manifestation as gastroenteritis.

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  1. Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control, 30333, Atlanta, GA, USA

    A. Balows

  2. Hygienic Laboratory, Oakdale Hall, University of Iowa, 52242, Iowa City, IA, USA

    W. J. Hausler Jr.

  3. Tokyo Metropolitan Research Laboratory of Public Health, Hyakunin-cho, Shinjuku-ku, 160, Tokyo, Japan

    M. Ohashi

  4. Istituto di Microbilogia dell ’Universitá, Spedali Civili, Brescia, Italy

    A. Turano

  5. Viral and Rickettsial Disease Laboratory, California Department of Health Services, and California Public Foundation, 94704, Berkeley, CA, USA

    E. H. Lennete (Emeritus Director) (Emeritus Director)

  6. Institut Virion, CH-8803, Ruschlikon/Zurich, Switzerland

    E. H. Lennete (Emeritus Director) (Emeritus Director)

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Ohashi, M. (1988). Typhoid Fever. In: Balows, A., Hausler, W.J., Ohashi, M., Turano, A., Lennete, E.H. (eds) Laboratory Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3898-0_54

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