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How to use typhus in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Typhus means any of several similar diseases, characterised by high recurrent fever, caused by Rickettsia bacteria. Not to be confused with typhoid fever. Example: “Typhoid and typhus have similar names and symptoms, but are different diseases.”

Examples of typhus by meaning

nounAny of several similar diseases, characterised by high recurrent fever, caused by Rickettsia bacteria. Not to be...

  • Typhoid and typhus have similar names and symptoms, but are different diseases.2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 377

More sentences with typhus

  • The least defined pyrexiae were the continued fevers, divided mainly into typhus, enteric (typhoid) and relapsing.1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 253. From the entry pyrexia
  • Louseborne typhus has played a major role in the history of nations over the past five centuries.1981, Ralph D. Feigin, James Donald Cherry, Textbook of pediatric infectious diseases: Volume 2. From the entry louseborne
  • Exanthemic typhus and abdominal typhus were in the past considered to be variants of the same disease.1975, Bertel von Bonsdorff, The History of Medicine in Finland, 1828-1918. From the entry exanthemic
  • Formerly this disease was called Japanese river fever, kedani disease, or scrub typhus fever.1960, Pavel Feliksovich Zdrodovskiĭ, Elena Mikhaǐlovna Golinevich, The rickettsial diseases, page 354. From the entry kedani
  • Spotted fever, yaws, typhus and trypanosomiasis throve here.1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 297. From the entry trypanosomiasis
  • Anthropod-borne diseases such as malaria, plague, relapsing fever, Rift Valley fever, tick-bite fever, and typhus (mainly tick-borne) have been reported from most of this area.2007, Dave Richards, Val Richards, Kenya, page 146. From the entry anthropod
  • We know that the most deadly of the early epidemics in America were those of the eruptive fevers—smallpox, measles, typhus, and so on.1973, Alfred W. Crosby, The Columbian Exchange, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 42. From the entry smallpox
  • The clothes which such person is wearing, his baggage, and any other article likely to spread typhus, shall be disinsected and, if necessary, disinfected.1952, Statutes of the Union of South Africa, Republic of South Africa, p. 339. From the entry disinsect
  • The DDT powder does not kill the rats; it merely defleas them and lessens the likelihood of the spread of typhus fever from rat to man.1948, University of Florida Publications in Experimental Applied Economics, volume 3, page 124. From the entry deflea

Meaning of typhus

  1. noun Any of several similar diseases, characterised by high recurrent fever, caused by Rickettsia bacteria. Not to be confused with typhoid fever.

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Questions about typhus in a sentence

How do you use typhus in a sentence?
Typhus is used as a noun. For example: “Typhoid and typhus have similar names and symptoms, but are different diseases.”
What is a short sentence with typhus?
“Spotted fever, yaws, typhus and trypanosomiasis throve here.”
What does typhus mean?
Typhus means any of several similar diseases, characterised by high recurrent fever, caused by Rickettsia bacteria. Not to be confused with typhoid fever.

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