Question

Who are typhoid carriers?

Answer 1

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A typhoid carrier is an asymptomatic person.

Typhoid carrier is someone who sheds typhoid bacteria from stool or urine, or from wound, tissues, and organs. 

It is most common in womens of old age.

Types of typhoid carriers include :

》Convalescent carrier

》Chronic carrier.

Answer 2

➡️Carriers of typhoid bacilli are a menace because they are often the cause of epidemics of typhoid.

➡️Since these carriers are most difficult to cure, their recognition and treatment constitute a serious public health problem.


➡️Various estimates are given of the proportion of convalescents who became chronic carriers. Gill reported that 10 per cent of typhoid convalescents in the Southern states become chronic carriers. In general, it is estimated that from 2 to 5 per cent of all typhoid patients become permanent carriers.


➡️ Recently C. H. Browning2 has published a thorough report for the Medical Research Council in England. Carriers are classed as temporary (a short period during convalescence) and chronic (those not cured spontaneously after one year) and further as chronic biliary, intestinal and urinary carriers. Statistics indicate that there are four or five female chronic carriers to one male. The spread of infection is commonly due