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It is a form of diarrhoea that is of protracted duration and is associated with sign of systemic disease such as high fever, rash and respiratory or neurologic symptoms. Salmonella typhimurium and Salmonella paratyphe are the most common cause.

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Enteric fever is another name for typhoid fever, an illness caused by the bacterium Salmonella typhi.

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What is salmonella enteric?

Enteric fever is the name given to typhoid fever. It is caused by bacillus salmonella typhimurium. You do not have non salmonella enteric fever. So salmonella enteric is not very correct term. But still the term is used to stress the seriousness of the disease.


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What has the author Keith Norman Macdonald written?

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