trench fever

English

Noun

trench fever (countable and uncountable, plural trench fevers)

(medicine) An acute infectious disease, caused by the microorganism Rickettsia quintana (now Bartonella quintana) and transmitted by the louse Pediculus humanus, that affected very many soldiers during World War I.

Synonyms

five-day fever

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