typhoid fever

plural typhoid fevers

1. countableuncountablebiologyAn illness caused by the bacterium serovar Salmonella Typhi. Not to be confused with typhus.

   The great French microbiologist Louis Pasteur [...] lost three of his five children to typhoid fever.

   2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 377

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   The sanitary authorities of St. Pancras have lost no time in dealing with the outbreak of typhoid fever in Camden Town; a largely augmented staff of officers have been engaged for some days in making a partial house-to-house inspection. Their inquiries have elicited the fact that the epidemic has been more widely spread than was at first imagined, and that the published statements respecting it, instead of being exaggerated, have been considerably below the mark.

   1883 September 22, “The week. Topics of the day”, in The Medical Times and Gazette. A Journal of Medical Science, Literature, Criticism, and News, page 350

   Synonyms: abdominal typhus, drain fever, enteric fever, typhoid