epidemic relapsing fever

epidemic relapsing fever
louse-borne relapsing f.

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  • relapsing fever — n any of several forms of an acute epidemic infectious disease marked by sudden recurring paroxysms of high fever lasting from five to seven days, articular and muscular pains, and a sudden crisis and caused by a spirochete of the genus Borrelia… …   Medical dictionary

  • Relapsing fever — Relapsing Re*laps ing, a. Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a former worse state. [1913 Webster] {Relapsing fever} (Med.), an acute, epidemic, contagious fever, which prevails also endemically in Ireland, Russia, and some… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Relapsing fever — | MeshID = D012061 Relapsing fever is an infection caused by certain bacteria in the genus Borrelia .cite journal |author=Schwan T |title=Ticks and Borrelia: model systems for investigating pathogen arthropod interactions |journal=Infect Agents… …   Wikipedia

  • relapsing fever — noun Date: 1849 a variable acute epidemic disease that is marked by recurring high fever usually lasting three to seven days and is caused by a spirochete (genus Borrelia) transmitted by the bites of lice and ticks …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • louse-borne relapsing fever — a type of relapsing fever caused by infection with Borrelia recurrentis, spread from person to person with a vector of the human body louse, Pediculus humanus humanus, which has humans as its reservoir. The condition occurs in epidemics when… …   Medical dictionary

  • Relapsing — Re*laps ing, a. Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a former worse state. [1913 Webster] {Relapsing fever} (Med.), an acute, epidemic, contagious fever, which prevails also endemically in Ireland, Russia, and some other… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Fever — Although a fever technically is any body temperature above the normal of 98.6 degrees F. (37 degrees C.), in practice a person is usually not considered to have a significant fever until the temperature is above 100.4 degrees F (38 degrees C.).… …   Medical dictionary

  • famine fever — Relapsing Re*laps ing, a. Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a former worse state. [1913 Webster] {Relapsing fever} (Med.), an acute, epidemic, contagious fever, which prevails also endemically in Ireland, Russia, and some… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • recurring fever — Relapsing Re*laps ing, a. Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a former worse state. [1913 Webster] {Relapsing fever} (Med.), an acute, epidemic, contagious fever, which prevails also endemically in Ireland, Russia, and some… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Boutonneuse fever — Classification and external resources Typical eschar and spots on the leg of a patient with Boutonneuse fever[1] …   Wikipedia

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