What's the difference between typhoid and typhotoxin?
Typhoid
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to typhus; resembling typhus; of a low grade like typhus; as, typhoid symptoms.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two new typhoid vaccines, one for oral administration and the other for injection, which have much fewer and milder side effects than previous whole-cell parenteral vaccines, have become available.
(2) Most cases of typhoid fever in the United States occur in international travelers, with the greatest risk associated with travel to Peru, India, Pakistan, and Chile.
(3) Salmonella typhi O and H antibody titres were determined by the Standard Agglutination Test (SAT) in 85 patients with bacteriologically proven typhoid, 102 patients with non-typhoidal febrile illnesses (control group 1), and 170 healthy subjects (control group 2).
(4) Forty four (11%) of these isolates were resistant to chloramphenicol, ampicillin, co-trimoxazole and tetracycline, the first three being drugs currently used in treating typhoid fever.
(5) Criterion of inclusion in the study was either positive blood culture in 70 (80%) cases or postmortem gross appearance of typhoid fever in 18 (20%) cases.
(6) It may be concluded that for recovery in typhoid fever CMIR is more important than antibodies.
(7) If you send them within 48 hours and there's a typhoid outbreak , you're putting these people at risk."
(8) Performing 178 fuctional-metabolic tests in 50 cases of typhoid fever (of which 10 severe and complicated forms), the authors established the prognostic value energy deficiency (approximately P), lactate, alkaline reserve and GPT.
(9) Chloramphenicol can be used to treat serious pediatric infections when Haemophilus influenzae is a likely pathogen, as well as typhoid fever, anaerobic infections, bacterial meningitis in patients allergic to penicillin, brain abscesses, and rickettsial infections.
(10) Studies were designed to develop an animal model which mimics the asymptomatic carrier state of typhoid fever, Salmonella typhi infection, in man.
(11) To study this in man we investigated the relation between a number of APPs, including fibrinogen and alpha 2-macroglobulin, and the inflammatory edema induced by a primary immunization against cholera, typhoid, and yellow fever.
(12) The efficiency of an ELISA method, designed to detect polyvalent IgG and IgM antibodies to Salmonella typhi polysaccharide was evaluated in patients admitted or convalescing from typhoid fever and in control subjects.
(13) The fluorescent Vi antibody test was however found superior to both tests not only in giving less false positives but also in detecting more typhoid carriers.
(14) Lymphocyte adenosine deaminase (L-ADA) activity, a measure of lymphocyte activity, was estimated in 10 healthy controls and 30 patients with typhoid fever (20 uncomplicated and 10 complicated) at the time of admission, at onset of complications and weekly until recovery.
(15) Practical and clinical aspects make it necessary to differentiate between typhoidal, systemic infections and enteric salmonellosis, which normally remains localized in the gut.
(16) Inflammatory reactions to intradermal S. typhosa endotoxin increased significantly during typhoid fever.
(17) We investigated the effect of hydrocortisone on mortality and complications in chloramphenicol-treated severe typhoid fever (STF) in Goroka, Papua New Guinea.
(18) In addition, since endotoxin can impair bile secretion, our results suggest that endotoxin may have a pathogenetic role in the development of liver injury during typhoid fever.
(19) The frequency and intensity of general and local reactions were identical for equal doses of typhoid and paratyphoid B vaccine.
(20) We report the case of a young man in whom Citrobacter freundii caused a primary invasive illness similar to typhoid fever.
Typhotoxin
Definition:
(n.) A basic substance, C7H17NO2, formed from the growth of the typhoid bacillus on meat pulp. It induces in small animals lethargic conditions with liquid dejecta.