typhoid fever
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Noun[edit]
typhoid fever (countable and uncountable, plural typhoid fevers)
- (pathology) An illness caused by the bacterium serovar Salmonella Typhi. Not to be confused with typhus.
- Synonyms: abdominal typhus, (archaic) drain fever, enteric fever, (shortened form) typhoid
- 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 377:
- The great French microbiologist Louis Pasteur [...] lost three of his five children to typhoid fever.
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illness
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Further reading[edit]
- Typhoid fever on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Typhus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia