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Malta fever

American  

noun

Pathology.
  1. brucellosis.


Malta fever British  

noun

  1. another name for brucellosis

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of Malta fever

First recorded in 1865–70

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In the Naval Hospital at Washington, Dr. Edward Francis was a patient last week, suffering from Malta fever.

From Time Magazine Archive

A member of the Royal Army Medical Corps, he discovered the microorganism in the tsetse fly which causes African sleeping sickness; and the cause of Malta fever.

From Time Magazine Archive

During the Crimean War, thousands of British soldiers quartered in the Mediterranean area were disabled by Malta fever.

From Time Magazine Archive

Malta fever and Brucellosis are commonly known in the U. S. as undulant fever.

From Time Magazine Archive

A similar phenomenon has been demonstrated in the case of Malta fever, cholera, plague, infection with B. coli, "meat-poisoning" due to G�rtner's bacillus, and various other infections.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various

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