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Brucellosis

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Noun
  1. 1
    Infection by a bacterium of the genus Brucella, which is carried by ruminants and other mammals, with symptoms including recurring fevers, sweating, weakness, anorexia, headaches, depression, and generalized aches and pains. countable, uncountable

    "There is debate asto whether rangiferine brucellosis spread to North America across the Bering Sea land bridge duringthelast iceage,orifit was introduced in imported Russian reindeer around 1900."

  2. 2
    infectious bacterial disease of human beings transmitted by contact with infected animals or infected meat or milk products; characterized by fever and headache wordnet
  3. 3
    an infectious disease of domestic animals often resulting in spontaneous abortion; transmittable to human beings wordnet

Etymology

From translingual Brucella + -osis.

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