Any of a variety of infectious intestinal diseases resembling typhoid fever

Usage examples of paratyphoid.

Catherine Wallenstein lay dead, not struck down by some primitive paroxysm of rage as it appeared, rather felled by the terminal onslaught of a massive and incurable disorder that had been ravaging him for years with a fever resembling paratyphoid, noncommunicable among humans, a condition visited upon him during the onset of puberty when he had first contracted a rare and largely extinct mountain strain of Albanian hoof and mouth disease.

First there was spotted fever, then paratyphoid fever and abdominal typhus erysipelas.