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n. - Any of a variety of infectious intestinal diseases resembling a certain fever.

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  • Typhoid, and what was described as paratyphoid, fevers followed these maladies.
  • I remember one occasion, when I had something called paratyphoid — it wasn't typhoid but I had to rest for many, many weeks — mother would read entire sets.
  • Several intestinal diseases such as paratyphoid and paradysentery are transmitted by flies whilst a series of facts also point to the possibility that infantile...
  • My cousins S. paratyphi causes paratyphoid fever but I just think he's copying me
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