Definition of Typhus

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Typhus

A contagious continued fever lasting from two to three weeks, attended with great prostration and cerebral disorder, and marked by a copious eruption of red spots upon the body. Also called jail fever, famine fever, putrid fever, spottled fever, etc. See Jail fever, under Jail.

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Typhus Quotations

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Just as the only reservoir for the typhus virus in nature is provided by man, so the only vector of infection is the louse. The bite of the louse is not virulent immediately after the infecting meal. It becomes so only towards the 7th day following infection.
Charles Jules Henry Nicole

My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today.
Charles Jules Henry Nicole

Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it.
Charles Jules Henry Nicole

I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals.
Charles Jules Henry Nicole

Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread.
Charles Jules Henry Nicole

I finally demonstrated that typhus infection is not hereditary in the louse.
Charles Jules Henry Nicole

It did not seem likely that I was destined to undertake research on typhus.
Charles Jules Henry Nicole

Typhus Translations

typhus in Dutch is tyfus
typhus in Spanish is tifus

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