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Typhoid fever — also known simply as typhoid — is a common worldwide bacterial disease transmitted by the ingestion of food or water contaminated with the feces of an infected person which contain the bacterium Salmonella enterica enterica serovar Typhi.The disease has received various names such as gastric fever abdominal typhus infantile remittant fever slow fever nervous fever and pythogenic fever.

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