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n. - Rod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria.

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  • One of my enterics is a Field Ambulance boy, with a temp. of 105, and he only "went sick" yesterday.
  • Only filled up my half of the train, both wounded and sick, including some very bad enterics.
  • There are rows of enterics on stretchers in khaki in this shed, waiting for motor ambulances to take them to Versailles No. -- G.H., being nursed here meanwhile.
  • P.M. It is a mercy we got our bad cases off at Boulogne -- pneumonias, enterics, two s. f.'s, and some badly wounded, including the officer dressed in bandages all over.
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