canine leptospirosis

noun Veterinary Pathology.

an often fatal intestinal disease in dogs, caused by any of several spirochetes of the genus Leptospira.

Compare canicola fever, leptospirosis.

Also called canine typhus, Stuttgart disease, Stuttgart's disease.

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