TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Diseases Spread by Food and Water A1 - Wallace, Robert B. Y1 - 2017 N1 - T2 - Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 15e AB - Typhoid fever is an acute, life-threatening, febrile illness caused by the bacterium Salmonella subspecies enterica serotype Typhi. Because humans are the only known natural host for Salmonella Typhi, fecal-oral transmission through contaminated food and water is the most common mode of infection. In the United States, about 300 cases are reported each year, and the majority of these are acquired while traveling internationally.1,2,3 SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Medical CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/16 UR - accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1141966322 ER -