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  2. Paratyphoid fever - Wikipedia

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    Paratyphoid fever; Other names: Paratyphoid: Rose colored spots on the chest of a man with typhoid fever, similar to those of paratyphoid: Specialty: Infectious disease: Symptoms: Fever, headache, rash, weakness [1] [2] Usual onset: 6–30 days post-exposure [1] [3] Duration: Weeks to months [1] Causes: Salmonella enterica spread by food or ...

  3. Typhoid fever - Wikipedia

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    Typhoid fever, also known simply as typhoid, is a disease caused by Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi bacteria, also called Salmonella typhi. [2] [3] Symptoms vary from mild to severe, and usually begin six to 30 days after exposure. [4] [5] Often there is a gradual onset of a high fever over several days. [4]

  4. Scrub typhus - Wikipedia

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    However, overshadowing of the diagnosis is quite often as the clinical symptoms overlap with other infectious diseases such as dengue fever, paratyphoid, and pyrexia of unknown origin (PUO). If the eschar can be identified, it is quite diagnostic of scrub typhus, but this can be unreliable on dark skin, and moreover, the site of eschar which is ...

  5. Salmonellosis - Wikipedia

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    Salmonellosis is a symptomatic infection caused by bacteria of the Salmonella type. [1] It is the most common disease to be known as food poisoning (though the name refers to food-borne illness in general), these are defined as diseases, usually either infectious or toxic in nature, caused by agents that enter the body through the ingestion of food.

  6. Typhoid-causing bacteria have become increasingly antibiotic ...

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    Typhoid fever causes 11 million infections and more than 100,000 deaths per year, and is most prevalent in south Asia – which accounts for 70% of the global disease burden.

  7. Typhus - Wikipedia

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    Typhoid fever is caused by the bacterium Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi. [37] In Canada alone, the typhus epidemic of 1847 killed more than 20,000 people from 1847 to 1848, mainly Irish immigrants in fever sheds and other forms of quarantine, who had contracted the disease aboard the crowded coffin ships in fleeing the Great Irish Famine ...

  8. List of infectious diseases - Wikipedia

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    Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) A diagnosis usually can be made by the presenting signs and symptoms alone. If the diagnosis is unclear, a throat swab or stool specimen may be taken. Medications are usually not needed as hand, foot, and mouth disease is a viral disease that typically resolves on its own. Under research [15] [16] Sin Nombre ...

  9. Typhoid vaccine - Wikipedia

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    Typhoid vaccines are vaccines that prevent typhoid fever. [1] [2] [3] Several types are widely available: typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV), Ty21a (a live oral vaccine) and Vi capsular polysaccharide vaccine (ViPS) (an injectable subunit vaccine). They are about 30 to 70% effective in the first two years, depending on the specific vaccine in ...