Rubarth's disease

[ roo-bahrts, -bahrths ]

/ ˈru bɑrts, -bɑrθs /

noun

a common, rapidly progressing viral hepatitis of dogs and other carnivores, often confused with canine distemper.

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Origin of Rubarth's disease

after Carl Sven Rubarth (born 1905), Swedish veterinarian, who described it in 1947

Also called infectious canine hepatitis.

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