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  2. Paratyphoid fever - Wikipedia

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    Without treatment, symptoms may last weeks or months. [1] Other people may carry the bacteria without being affected; however, they are still able to spread the disease to others. [3] Typhoid and paratyphoid are of similar severity. [3] Paratyphoid and typhoid fever are types of enteric fever. [7]

  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. 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 ...

  5. Vi capsular polysaccharide vaccine - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Ty21a - Wikipedia

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    Ty21a is a live attenuated bacterial vaccine that protects against typhoid.First licensed in Europe in 1983 and in the United States in 1989, it is an orally administered, live-attenuated Ty2 strain of S. Typhi in which multiple genes, including the genes responsible for the production of Vi, have been deleted so as to render it harmless but nevertheless immunogenic.

  7. Enteric fever - Wikipedia

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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.

  8. Mecillinam - Wikipedia

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    It is used primarily in the treatment of urinary tract infections, and has also been used to treat typhoid and paratyphoid fever. [3] [4] Because mecillinam has very low oral bioavailability, an orally active prodrug was developed: pivmecillinam.

  9. Wikipedia:VideoWiki/Typhoid fever - Wikipedia

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    The chlorination of public drinking water led to the sharp reduction of typhoid in developed nations. [8] In typhoid-endemic countries, Typhoid vaccines have been shown to prevent 40 to 90% of cases during the first two years, [ 9 ] and may have some effect for up to seven years.

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