also: チブス · チプス
腸チフスはチフス菌によって引き起こされる。
Typhoid fever is caused by Salmonella typhi.
Paratyphoid often has milder symptoms than typhoid.
He caught typhoid while traveling.
I got a typhoid vaccination before going abroad.
Typhoid became epidemic in this region after the war.
チフス alone can loosely refer to typhoid or typhus, while 腸チフス specifically names typhoid fever and is the term doctors use to avoid ambiguity.
パラチフス names paratyphoid fever specifically, a related but usually milder illness than the typhoid meaning covered by チフス.
発疹チフス specifically means typhus (a louse-borne rickettsial disease), distinct from the typhoid sense that チフス can also carry.
Standard modern spelling; the word is usually written in katakana.
Obsolete kana variant; not used in modern Japanese.
Ateji spelling; rarely used. Included for recognition of historical texts.
Obsolete kana variant; not used in modern Japanese.
Borrowed from German 'Typhus'. The ateji spelling 窒扶斯 is a phonetic rendering.