Potomac horse fever

Potomac horse fever
Po·to·mac horse fever pə-'tō-mək-, -mik- n an often fatal disease of horses that is marked by fever, loss of appetite, diarrhea, and laminitis, that is caused by a bacterium of the genus Ehrlichia (E. risticii), and that was discovered in the region of the Potomac River in Maryland but is much more widespread called also Potomac fever

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equine monocytic ehrlichiosis.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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