paratyphoid
/par-uh-tahy-foid/US // ˌpær əˈtaɪ fɔɪd //UK // (ˌpærəˈtaɪfɔɪd) pathol //
副伤寒,副伤寒症,副伤寒论,伤寒
Definitions
n.名词 noun
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- : Also called paratyphoid fever. an infectious disease, similar in some of its symptoms to typhoid fever but usually milder, caused by any of several bacilli of the genus Salmonella other than S. typhi.
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : of or relating to paratyphoid.
- : resembling typhoid.
Examples
A bacillus belonging to the paratyphoid group was isolated from the stools of patients, but not from the dried codfish.
Especially is it true of meat poisoning epidemics that paratyphoid bacilli are found in causal relation with them.
Southwest Germany, for example, seems to harbor paratyphoid bacilli in relatively large numbers.
Typhoid, and what was described as paratyphoid, fevers followed these maladies.
It was directed that before embarkation all troops were to be reinoculated against paratyphoid.
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