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This about the disease paratyphoid fever. See typhus for an unrelated disease with a similar name. Typhoid fever is a related disease but is caused by a different bacterium.Paratyphoid fevers are a group of enteric illnesses caused by serotypic strains of the Salmonella genus of bacteria S. Paratyphi.There are three serovars of the species of S. enterica that cause paratyphoid: S. Paratyphi A S. Paratyphi B (S. schottmuelleri and S. pullorum) and S. Paratyphi C (S.