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The person get infected by eating the contaminated food or at times water. He becomes ill after 5 to 21 days.
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What was the cause of infection for the typhoid fever?
The cauative agent for typhoid is Salmonella typhi
Is typhoid a comnucable deasese?
Typhoid fever is considered a communicable disease. It is a bacterial infection that attacks the intestinal tract.
Is there an antibiotic for yellow fever?
There is no single pill to cure typhoid and yellow fever. You have a pill to cure typhoid but no pill to cure the yellow fever. Yellow fever is a viral infection and there is no specific pill for the same.
What is the meaning of typhoid?
Typhoid is similar to typhus fever. So it is probably called as typhoid fever. Typhoid has surpassed the typhus fever in prevalence to great extent.
Is typhoid fever related to malaria?
No. Not at all. Malaria is a parasitic infection from mosquitoes. You can treat malaria by anti-malaria drugs. There is no vaccine. Typhoid fever is caused by a bacteria. People infected by this bacteria can spread it to other people who contaminate food or water. There is a typhoid vaccine and the infection can be treated with antibiotics.
Is there possible to get eye infection from typhoid fever?
You have bacteremia ( Bacteria in blood stream) in the first week of typhoid fever. The bacteria can get settled any where including your eye. That should be dreaded complication.
What are the long term effects of Typoid?
The long-term effects of typhoid fever can be intestinal perforations and psychiatric problems like hallucinations and confusion. If untreated, typhoid can have long-term effects, such as infections and gastrointestinal bleeding. Typhoid fever is caused by a bacterial infection.
What medicine cures Typhoid Fever?
Typhoid fever is caused by Salmonella typhus, and is typically treated with general supportive care (fluids, nutritional support, etc.) and antibiotics.
Can typhoid fever be found in Zimbabwe?
Yes. Typhoid fever is common there.
Can Doxycycline monohydrate oral tablet be used to treat typhoid fever?
Doxycycline is useless for typhoid fever.
Is typhoid fever transferable?
Typhoid fever transfer from one person to other by fecal/oral route.
How typhoid germ spread out?
typhoid fever is caused by bacterial infection, generally of the salmonella bacteria. this is most often spread by the ingestion of feces-contaminated food and/or water.
