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Definition of Paratyphoid fever
1. Noun. Any of a variety of infectious intestinal diseases resembling typhoid fever.
Definition of Paratyphoid fever
1. Noun. (pathology) Any of a variety of acute infectious intestinal diseases resembling typhoid fever but less severe, caused by eating food contaminated with certain bacteria of the genus Salmonella. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Paratyphoid fever
1. A prolonged febrile illness commonly caused by serotypes of salmonella paratyphi. It is similar to typhoid fever but less severe. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Paratyphoid Fever
Literary usage of Paratyphoid fever
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1921)
"It is not definitely known how much of an immunity is conferred by one attack,
but it is known that paratyphoid fever does not protect against typhoid fever ..."
2. Typhoid Fever Considered as a Problem of Scientific Medicine by Frederick Parker Gay (1918)
"With the increasing body of information that has come, particularly in the last
few years, in respect to cases of paratyphoid fever that have been ..."
3. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1904)
""PARATYPHOID"FEVER. BY R. TANNER HEWLETT, MD, MRCP, DPH. ... paratyphoid fever
may be defined as a disease resembling typhoid fever in its clinical course ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"He says that all suspicious cases of this disease should be examine with the
Rontgen apparatus. paratyphoid fever and Melena in the Newborn. ..."
5. Diseases of the Stomach, Intestines, and Pancreas by Robert Coleman Kemp (1917)
"paratyphoid fever This is a term applied to a group of diseases which, ...
paratyphoid fever is caused by the microorganisms known as Bacillus ..."
6. A Text-book of the Practice of Medicine by James Meschter Anders (1915)
"The duration of paratyphoid fever may be short, and the temperature decline by
rapid lysis or crisis, or it may be long. Convalescence is also less ..."
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