adj 1  :  resembling typhoid fever  2  :  of or relating to paratyphoid or its causative organisms < infection> 
n :  any of numerous salmonelloses (as necrotic enteritis) that resemble typhoid fever and are commonly contracted by eating contaminated food - called also paratyphoid fever  .
 
   
 
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