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Trench fever
noun
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Noun
- 1 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. countable, uncountable
- 2 marked by pain in muscles and joints and transmitted by lice wordnet
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