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paratyphoid

[ par-uh-tahy-foid ]

noun

  1. Also called paratyphoid fever. an infectious disease, similar in some of its symptoms to typhoid but usually milder, caused by any of several bacilli of the genus Salmonella other than S. typhi.


adjective

  1. of or relating to paratyphoid.
  2. resembling typhoid.

paratyphoid

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adjective

  1. resembling typhoid fever or its causative agent
  2. of or relating to paratyphoid fever
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of paratyphoid1

First recorded in 1900–05; para- 1 + typhoid
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This time, the wind that howled in her ears and that changed the course of her life affected her own young body: she came down with an inner-ear infection combined with a disease called paratyphoid.

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Volunteers have been infected with a highly contagious bacteria to test a new paratyphoid vaccine.

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Choi and Cho said measles, chickenpox, cholera, typhoid, paratyphoid, hepatitis and tuberculosis repeatedly swept through North Korea when they were there.

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A group at the University of Oxford led by pediatrician Andrew Pollard has conducted a challenge study of experimental vaccines against typhoid and paratyphoid.

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Especially is it true of meat poisoning epidemics that paratyphoid bacilli are found in causal relation with them.

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