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The organism is a Gram-negative short bacillus that is motile due to its peritrichous flagella. The bacterium grows best at 37 C (124.2 F) � human body temperature. This fever received various names, such as gastric fever, abdominal typhus, infantile remittant fever, slow fever, nervous fever, pythogenic fever, etc. The name of " typhoid " was given by Louis in 1829, as a derivative from typhus. The impact of this disease falls sharply with the application of modern sanitation techniques. |