Definition of "enteric fever" []

• See typhoid fever. (noun)

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• "Ague and enteric fever ran through the camps as summer came in."
• "Among the casualties was G.W. Steevens, who, having turned his Sudanese experiences into another bestseller, With Kitchener to Khartum, died of enteric fever at the siege of Ladysmith."
• "One by one the notables quit the city, unbearable during the height of summer, when every kind of enteric fever raged amid Subura and Esquiline, and even Palatine and Aventine were only debatably healthy."