Vac Typhoid Fever (Short)

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Vaccine for Typhoid fever Typhoid fever ,gastric fever, abdominal typhus, infantile remittent fever, slow fever, nervous fever, pathogenic fever, are the many names this disease Has been given over the years The name of "typhoid" comes from the neurological psychiatric symptoms found in typhoid and typhus . It”s an acute intestinal illness, caused by the bacterium ‘Salmonella enterica’ The S. typhi bacterium is found worldwide and usually transmitted by eating of human waste-contaminated food products or water and drinks. The bacteria enter the blood stream where they multiply (they grow best at temperatures about 37ºC , the normal human body’s temperature), and which carries them towards the intestinal tract where they group, and where they may be excreted in large numbers, spreading of the infection. There is also a so-called carrier stage that can vary from days to years, and about three percent of patients can go on to remain lifelong carriers of the bacteria, Humans are the main vectors of this bacteria and in rare cases certain people can carry the bacteria with out falling ill but infecting others. The most famous example of this is Mary Mallon otherwise known as typhoid Mary who infected around fifty people thru her work . she was arrested and put into quarantine where she died after 26 years. In 1880 Karl Joseph Eberth described a bacillus(bacteria) that he suspected was the cause of typhoid. In 1884 pathologist Georg Theodor August Gaffky (1850–1918) confirmed Eberth's findings, and the organism was given names such as Eberth's bacillus, Eberthella typhi and Gaffky-Eberth bacillus. Today the bacteria that causes typhoid fever goes by the scientific name of Salmonella enterica enterica, serovar Typhi. It was known at that time that typhoid fever was most common in areas with poor hygiene. After the discovery of the bacteria scientists were able to

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