Ty yphoid fever is caused by Salmonella typhi, which affects only humans, often causing
serious systemic illness. The organism is generally trans-mitted by the feces or urine of …

Typhoid fever remains an important disease in Third World communities, mainly as a
consequence of polluted drinking water collected directly from sources such as rivers and …

Typhoid fever is unique to humans. It remains a significant health problem in many
developing countries, and poses a risk to travelers who visit such endemic regions. The …

Typhoid fever is a blood infection caused by consumption of food or water contaminated by
the bacterium Salmonella enterica, subspecies enterica, serovar Typhi; commonly referred …

Typhoid fever, primarily contracted from contaminated food or water, is a potential threat to
travelers to the developing world. The most re-cent tabulation of typhoid fever cases in the …

Abstract Analysis of data on the incidence of typhoid fever and the costs of vaccination of
travellers to the developing world indicates that vaccination may not be cost-effective for …

Background Typhoid fever is a potentially fatal illness common in the less industrialized
world. In the United States, the majority of cases occur in travelers to other countries …

To explore changes in the epidemiology of typhoid fever in the United States, cases reported
to the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) and typhoid case report forms …

From 1940 to 1970, the annual incidence of typhoid in the United States declined from 75 to
1.7 cases per 1,000,000 population. From 1970 to 1978, with the exception of a large …

Typhoid and paratyphoid fever (enteric fever) have become a travel‐associated disease in
the industrialized world. The risk to travelers appears to vary by geographic region visited …