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[Typhoid and paratyphoid fever].

Typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever are systemic infectious diseases of global significance caused by Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica Serovar Typhi (short name: Salmonella Typhi) or Serovar Paratyphi (short name: Salmonella Paratyphi). The course of these fecal-orally transmitted diseases is mainly characterized by a high fever. Left untreated, the course of typhoid fever can be severe and lethal. The infection is almost always acquired outside of Europe (mainly in India) and is notifiable in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Paratyphoid is an attenuated disease of typhoid fever caused…