leptospirosis
English
Etymology
From Leptospira + -osis.
Noun
leptospirosis (countable and uncountable, plural leptospiroses)
- An acute, infectious, febrile disease of both humans and animals, caused by spirochetes of the genus Leptospira.
Synonyms
- (disease): Weil’s disease, canicola fever, canefield fever, nanukayami fever, 7-day fever, rat catcher's yellows, Fort Bragg fever, black jaundice, pretibial fever
Translations
disease
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Further reading
Leptospira on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Leptospira (Noguchi) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Spanish
Further reading
- “leptospirosis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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