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Examples of enteric fever in a Sentence
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Likewise, a Current Biology study published in July described the earliest evidence of Salmonella enterica, which causes deadly enteric fever, in northern Europe.
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Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 9 Oct. 2018
The most likely other possibility is some sort of enteric fever, like something that is maybe gastrointestinal.
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Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 26 Apr. 2021
The strains infecting the farmers, who lived 5500 to 1600 years ago, include the progenitor of paratyphi C, a strain that causes a deadly form of enteric fever similar to typhoid fever today.
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Ann Gibbons, Science | AAAS, 24 Feb. 2020
Typhoid fever is an enteric fever, as was the disease that caused a devastating 1545 epidemic in modern-day Mexico.
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Kate Sheridan, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2018
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Word History
First Known Use
1833, in the meaning defined above
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“Enteric fever.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/enteric%20fever. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.
Medical Definition
enteric fever
noun
: typhoid fever
also
: paratyphoid
More from Merriam-Webster on enteric fever
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