Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Typhoid
- Causative Organism
- Salmonella Typhi
- Controls & Prevention
- Controls
- Antibiotics
- Frequently washing hands after toilet use
- Prevention
- Vaccination
- Health education on hand hygiene
- Period of Communicability
- It is communicable as
long as the organism is
still present in the stool
- Some Patients can
become permanent
carriers
- Mode of Transmission
- Faecel-Oral
Only affects
Humans
- Signs & Symptoms
- Severe Diarrhoea
- Headache
- Stomach pains
- High temperature
- Fever
- Sore throat
- Incubation Period
- 8 to 14 days