paratyphoid fever

noun

Meaning

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.

Related words

paratyphoid(English)typhoid(English)typhoid fever(English)salmonellosis(English)food poisoning(English)abdominal typhus(English)typhus(English)pyaemia(English)

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