Typhoid Fever

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Overview

Microscopic enlargement of Typhoid

Typhoid is also called gastric fever, abdominal typhus, infantile remittent fever, slow fever, nervous fever and pythogenic fever.

The name typhoid means "resembling typhus" and comes from the neuropsychiatric symptoms common to typhoid and typhus. Despite this similarity of their names, typhoid fever and typhus are distinct diseases and are caused by different species of bacteria.

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