paratyphoid fever

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

• n. An acute intestinal disease, similar to typhoid fever but less severe, caused by eating food contaminated with certain bacteria of the genus Salmonella.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

• n. 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.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• n. any of a variety of infectious intestinal diseases resembling typhoid fever