Acting against or preventing typhoid fever or typhoid bacteria.
From anti- (against) + typhoid (resembling typhus, a disease), from Greek typhos (smoke, stupor) + -oid (resembling). The term emerged in the late 1800s with typhoid vaccines and treatments.
The antityphoid vaccine was revolutionary in the early 1900s—for the first time, soldiers could be protected from one of the deadliest battlefield killers (more soldiers died of typhoid than wounds in the Civil War).
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