paratyphoid fever

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From para- +‎ typhoid fever.

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paratyphoid fever (countable and uncountable, plural paratyphoid fevers)

  1. (pathology) Any of a variety of acute infectious intestinal diseases resembling typhoid fever but less severe, caused by eating food contaminated with certain bacteria of the genus Salmonella.

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