- Elokomin fluke fever
- a mild form of salmon poisoning (q.v.) in dogs, usually not fatal; the infective agent is an unidentified rickettsia. Characteristics include fever, anorexia, and diarrhea.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
Elokomin fluke fever
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Salmon poisoning disease — (SPD) is a fatal disease of dogs and other canids caused by infection with a type of rickettsia, Neorickettsia helminthoeca .cite book|author=Ettinger, Stephen J.;Feldman, Edward C.|title=Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine|edition=4th… … Wikipedia
salmon poisoning — n a highly fatal febrile disease of fish eating dogs and other canine mammals that resembles canine distemper and is caused by a rickettsial bacterium (Neorickettsia helminthoeca) transmitted by encysted larvae of a fluke (Nanophyetus salmincola) … Medical dictionary
