typhoid

     

Typhoi fever, also known as enteric fever, bilious fever or Yellow Jack, is an illness caused by the bacterium Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi. Common worldwide, it is transmitted by the ingestion of food or water contaminated with faeces from an infected person. The bacteria then multiply in the blood stream of the infected person and are absorbed into the digestive tract and eliminated with the waste. The organism is a Gram-negative short bacillus that is motile due to its peritrichous flagella. The bacteria grows best at 37°C (human body temperature).

Trivia about typhoid

  • If Pierre Bretonneau's name for this disease had stuck, we'd talk about Dothienenteritis Mary
  • Mary Mallon was immune to this disease that she carried & spread from 1904 to 1915
  • For spreading this disease, food handler Mary Mallon spent the last 23 years of her life in detention
  • In the early 20th century, Mary Mallon infected about 50 people, not thousands, with this disease
  • Mary Mallon was the first known carrier of this disease in the U.S.
  • Mary Mallon was famously a carrier of this fever

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