paratyphoid fever
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From para- + typhoid fever.
Noun
[edit]paratyphoid fever (countable and uncountable, plural paratyphoid fevers)
- (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.
Translations
[edit]acute infectious intestinal disease
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