swamp fever
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swamp fever
n.
1. Malaria.
2. Equine infectious anemia.
3. Leptospirosis.
swamp fever
See leptospirosis, malaria.
swamp fever
MicrobiologyA generic term for any of a number of infections that are more common in swamps and typically transmitted by mosquitoes, such as:
(1) Leptospirosis, see there;
(2) Malaria.
Veterinary medicine
Equine infectious anaemia, see there.
swamp fever
Synonym for1. Equine infectious anemia, a viral infection of horses, transmitted by hematophagous arthopods, causing weakness, recurrent fever, marked anemia and muscular atrophy.
2. Malaria.
3. Marsh fever A waterborne infection–vector is Rattus rattus–by the spirochete, Leptospira grippotyphosa, which causes fever, general malaise and aseptic meningitis.
e·quine in·fec·tious a·ne·mi·a
(ē'kwīn in-fek'shŭs ă-nē'mē-ă)A worldwide disease of horses and other equids, caused by equine infectious anemia virus marked by general debility, remittent fever, staggering gait, progressive anemia, and loss of flesh; it is transmitted by bloodsucking insects and by contact, oral infection, or the use of unsterilized syringes and needles.
Synonym(s): swamp fever (1) .
Synonym(s): swamp fever (1) .
ma·lar·i·a
(mă-lar'ē-ă)A disease caused by the presence of the sporozoan Plasmodium in the erythrocyte phase, usually transmitted by the bite of an infected female mosquito of the genus Anopheles. Human infection begins with the exoerythrocytic cycle in liver parenchyma cells, followed by a series of erythrocytic schizogenous cycles repeated at regular intervals; production of gametocytes in other red blood cells provides future gametes for another mosquito infection; characterized by episodic severe chills and high fever, prostration, and occasionally death or immunologically mediated sequelae.
See also: Plasmodium, tropical diseases
Synonym(s): swamp fever (2) .
See also: Plasmodium, tropical diseases
Synonym(s): swamp fever (2) .
swamp fever
See LEPTOSPIROSIS.swamp fever
1. equine infectious anemia.
2. leptospirosis.