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Typhoid Fever Causes, Symptoms, Treatment and Vaccine

TYPHOID FEVER

This is the severe infectious disease marked by fever and septicemia.
It is very common fever in some areas. mostly among travellers.
An estimated 20 million cases of typhoid fever and 24,0000 deaths occur in all over the world.
Some in endemic  areas where the sanitation system is poor.
CAUSES:-
It is caused by the S.typhi.
gram negative bacteria that enter the gastrointestinal tract.
Infention in the billary tract.
It is most commonly transmitted by the fecal-oral route through water or food contaminated by humsn feces.
Lymtyphoid tissues and walls of the ileum and colon seeding thrvintestinal tract with millions of bacilli.
SYMPTOMS:-
most common symptoms of gastrointestinal symptoms may develop within 1 hour of salmonella., typhi ingestion.
Fever, malaise.
Anorexia , myalgia, headache and slow pulse  rate.
Fleeting rash.
Chills and diapherosis increasing abdominal pain and digestion.
Diarrhoea or constipation
Abdominal pain
Weakness and exhaution.
Cough and moist crackles.
Bacteria spread through the blood stream.
Fatigue and ilness increasing.
Some time internal bleeding usually develops as the result of gastrointestinsl ulcers.
Abscesses and intestinal perforation as result hypovemic shock may aoccur.
Damage te the liver and spleen .
Most serious complications of causing typhoid fever are pneumonia , thrombophlebitis, osteomyelitis, septic arthritis .

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