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Definition of Enteric fever

1. Noun. Serious infection marked by intestinal inflammation and ulceration; caused by Salmonella typhosa ingested with food or water.

Medical Definition of Enteric fever

1. An infectious febrile illness usually spread by contamination of food, milk or water supplies with Salmonella typhi, either directly by sewage, indirectly by flies or by faulty personal hygiene. There are less than 600 cases per year in the us. Asymptomatic carriers harbor the organism in their gallbladder and excrete it in their stools for years. Average incubation time is 10-14 days. Fever, diarrhoeal stools (often bloody), abdominal pain, malaise and a rose coloured rash on the upper abdomen are seen. Severe cases may progress to delirium and obtundation. Complications include glomerulonephritis. Treatment includes intravenous fluids and antibiotics (chloramphenicol or ampicillin). Vaccines are recommended for travel to endemic areas. (27 Sep 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Enteric Fever

Literary usage of Enteric fever

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Lancet (1898)
"The first noteworthy point is the remarkable decline in enteric fever which has occurred at ... In 1895 the death-rate from enteric fever in London was 14, ..."

2. A History of Epidemics in Britain by Charles Creighton (1894)
"Typhoid or enteric fever in London, 1826. The identification of enteric fever and ... The case, therefore, may have been one of relapsing enteric fever. ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"The Treatment of enteric fever with Specific Sera Filtrates and Residues. —RICHARDSON (Boston Med. and Surg. Jour., 1907, clvii, 449) summarizes a study of ..."

4. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1904)
"IT is scarcely possible to say anything about enteric fever in the army that has not already been said a great many times. Able articles by the officers of ..."

5. Journal of the Statistical Society of London by Statistical Society (Great Britain) (1878)
"enteric fever and Milli Supply. IN January and February there was a remarkable outbreak of enteric fever at the west end of Glasgow, on which Dr. Russell, ..."

6. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1896)
"JC WILSON said that the paper was interesting as bearing upon certain facts relating both to influenza and enteric fever. He did not recall the two cases ..."

7. Clinical Hematology: A Practical Guide to the Examination of the Blood with by John C. DaCosta (1901)
"Purgative doses of jalap, croton oil, and other drugs of this class are also followed by more or less polycythemia. XVI. enteric fever. ..."

8. The Medical and Surgical Reporter (1890)
"All the essential features ' of typhoid or enteric fever are absent. ... Quain observes that in India cases of enteric fever have been, and are, ..."

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