paratyphoid in English
noun
1
a fever resembling typhoid but caused by different (though related) bacteria.
In 2004, nine people contracted typhoid and paratyphoid fever , seven picked up malaria, two people got leprosy and there was one case of cholera.
noun
paratyphoid fever
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1. In many countries contaminated water spreads cholera, jaundice, typhoid, paratyphoid, bacillary dysentery, and amoebic dysentery, among other diseases.
2. Other serious diseases are typhoid and paratyphoid fever, amebic liver abscess, visceral leishmaniasis, leptospirosis and—rarely—viral hemorrhagic fevers.
3. Paratyphoid is caused by the bacterium Salmonella enterica of the serotypes Paratyphi A, Paratyphi B, or Paratyphi C growing in the intestines and blood.