Definition of Typhoid bacillus

1. Noun. A form of salmonella that causes typhoid fever.

Exact synonyms: Salmonella Typhi, Salmonella Typhosa
Generic synonyms: Salmonella

Medical Definition of Typhoid bacillus

1. A serotype of salmonella enterica which is the aetiologic agent of typhoid. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Typhoid Bacillus

typhlology
typhlomegaly
typhlon
typhlopexy
typhlorrhaphy
typhlosis
typhlosole
typhlosoles
typhlostomy
typhlotomy
typho-
typhoean
typhogenic
typhoid
typhoid-paratyphoid A and B vaccine
typhoid bacillus (current term)
typhoid bacteriophage
typhoid cholera
typhoid fever
typhoid pleurisy
typhoid pneumonia
typhoid septicaemia
typhoid vaccine
typhoidal
typhoidin
typhoidins
typhoids
typholysin
typhomalarial
typhomania

Literary usage of Typhoid bacillus

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

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The typhoid bacillus is a short comparatively plump rod varying in length ... The marked motility of the typhoid bacillus is of much importance in the study ..."

2. The Lancet (1898)
"My observations are quite in harmony with those of Germano and Maurea, in that I have yet to see a true typhoid bacillus which reduces ..."

3. Pathogenic microorganisms by William Hallock Park (1920)
"THE typhoid bacillus. Tins organism was first observed by Eberth, in 1880, ... The typhoid bacillus is a motile, aerobic, facultative anaerobic, ..."

4. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1916)
"Surgical methods fail to cure carriers, for the typhoid bacillus may ... The typhoid bacillus has no spore. It is, therefore, comparatively easy to destroy. ..."

5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1894)
"The above discoveries of the typhoid bacillus in natural waters have, in almost all cases, been made not by means of the ordinary method of plate ..."

6. A Text-book of General Bacteriology by Edwin Oakes Jordan (1921)
"Suppurative and inflammatory processes (metastases) may be kindled by the typhoid bacillus in many parts of the body. The osseous system seems especially ..."

7. A Text-book of General Bacteriology by Edwin Oakes Jordan (1918)
"Suppurative and inflammatory processes (metastases) may be kindled by the typhoid bacillus in many parts of the body. The osseous system seems especially ..."

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