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typhus

[ US /ˈtaɪfəs/ ]
[ UK /tˈa‍ɪfəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. rickettsial disease transmitted by body lice and characterized by skin rash and high fever

How To Use typhus In A Sentence

  • Blood from a guinea pig who has contracted inapparent typhus will always produce pyretic typhus in another guinea pig if the dose inoculated is sufficient. Charles Nicolle - Nobel Lecture
  • I took those sera down to Melbourne with me and tested them to see if any of them had antibody to this newly discovered tick typhus organism.
  • Lebailly and I then went on to demonstrate that inapparent primary infection typhus, which is exceptional in inoculated guinea pigs, is the only form which the disease takes experimentally in the rat and the mouse. Charles Nicolle - Nobel Lecture
  • Rats can spread the plague, typhus and food poisoning.
  • Ma Rou and the donkey meat cannot with the food, otherwise can typhus and so on.
  • A laundry was established where inmates were washed and deloused; DDT was used on everyone in the camp and in all the huts to prevent the spread of typhus.
  • War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. Antoine De Saint-Exupery 
  • Within weeks of the arrival of the new inmates, epidemics of typhus, dysentery, and tuberculosis were raging out of control.
  • Mortality during famines was rarely caused solely by starvation but from related diseases like dysentery, typhoid, and typhus.
  • Diseases such as smallpox, typhus, and tuberculosis had dire consequences, and these consequences were intensifying on Britain's increasingly crowded streets.
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