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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