Typhoid fever or typhoid abdominalis is a serious infectious disease caused by the bacterium Salmonella enterica or the subspecies enterica serovar Typhimurium.
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Due to poor hygienic conditions, infection occurs via smear infection through contaminated food, and rarely also through direct fecal-oral transmission from person to person. The pathogen occurs throughout the world; however, Asia and especially Southeast Asia are risk areas. Symptoms of the disease progress in three stages one to three weeks after infection. In the first stage, i.e. in the first week, one suffers from fatigue, slight fever, headache and aching limbs, sore throat, cough and constipation. In the second week, 40 ° fever, impaired consciousness, red skin spots, bloody coatings on the mucous membranes and the typical gray-white coated typhoid tongue are added. In the third week, complications such as meningitis, myocarditis, intestinal bleeding and bone erosion may occur.
Therapy: Antibiotics are taken for several weeks.
Size of pathogen: 4 µm
Incubation period: 7 - 21 days
Probability of death: up to 2
Annual infections: 32 million
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