typhoid fever

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typhoid fever (countable and uncountable, plural typhoid fevers)

  1. (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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