Pathophysiology of Typhoid Fever Diagram - What is the pathophysiology of a fever? The cause of fever is due to an infection. Infections caused by pyrogens that produce pyrogenic cytokines, and directly stimulates the release of pyrogenic cytokines, which went to the vessels supplying the hypothalamus (lamina ventricularis).
What is typhoid fever?
Typhoid fever, also known as enteric fever caused by Salmonella enteric serotype Typhi bacteria (also known as Salmonella Typhi), which is carried by infected humans in the blood and digestive tract and spread to others through food and drinking water contaminated with feces of infected .
Typhoid fever if not treated immediately can potentially life-threatening. Symptoms of typhoid fever include fever, abdominal pain, and rash.