also: チブス · チプス
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.
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.