Monday, May 26, 2008

[Indonesian]Tifus, Tipes, Tipus, Tifoid?


Which one is the (near) correct term for a common disease?
In many occasion we hear patients mentioning the words, when they have certain kind of fever. But, actually they usually want to refer to the "typhoid fever". Tifus or typhus is rarely occur lately, because there aren't many rodent around. So which term is correct? (you could answer it by yourself).

And the left picture (from www.livescience.com) is not a flower. This color-enhanced scanning electron micrograph image shows the deadly bacterial pathogen Salmonella typhosa (in red) invading cultured human cells. Salmonella causes about 2 million deaths by typhoid fever globally each year, and many more sicknesses.