paratyphoid fever: Quick Facts

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typhoid fever Bacterial disease cholera leprosy tuberculosis plague syphilis anthrax scarlet fever diphtheria gonorrhea whooping cough

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Fernand-Isidore Widal

French physician and bacteriologist

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