| East African sleeping sickness | A disease of humans caused by Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense in eastern Africa from Ethiopia and Uganda south to Zimbabwe; it is clinically similar to Gambian trypanosomiasis but of shorter duration and more acute in form; patients suffer repeated episodes of pyrexia, become anaemic, and die commonly from cardiac failure. Synonym: acute African sleeping sickness, acute trypanosomiasis, East African sleeping sickness, East African trypanosomiasis. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| East African trypanosomiasis | A disease of humans caused by Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense in eastern Africa from Ethiopia and Uganda south to Zimbabwe; it is clinically similar to Gambian trypanosomiasis but of shorter duration and more acute in form; patients suffer repeated episodes of pyrexia, become anaemic, and die commonly from cardiac failure. Synonym: acute African sleeping sickness, acute trypanosomiasis, East African sleeping sickness, East African trypanosomiasis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| East Coast fever | A serious disease of cattle in eastern and central Africa, caused by the protozoan Theileria parva and characterised by high fever, swelling of the lymph nodes, and high case fatality; transmitted by Rhipicephalus appendiculatus and other ticks of the genus Rhipicephalus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| easter proteinase | <enzyme> Amino acid sequence of light chain from drosophila has high homology with light chain of tachypleus proclotting enzyme Registry number: EC 3.4.21.- Synonym: easter gene product (26 Jun 1999) |
| easterling | 1. A native of a country eastward of another; used, by the English, of traders or others from the coasts of the Baltic. "Merchants of Norway, Denmark, . . . Called . . . Easterlings because they lie east in respect of us." (Holinshed) 2. A piece of money coined in the east by Richard II. Of England. 3. <zoology> The smew. Origin: Cf. Sterling. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| eastern equine encephalomyelitis | A form of mosquito-borne equine encephalomyelitis seen in the eastern U.S. And caused by the eastern equine encephalomyelitis virus, a species of Alphavirus, which belongs to the family Togaviridae; initial fever and viraemia are followed by signs of central nervous system involvement (excitement, then somnolence, paralysis, and death); the incidence of clinical infection in man is low but case fatality may be high. (05 Mar 2000) |
| eastern equine encephalomyelitis virus | A virus of the genus Alphavirus (formerly group A arbovirus), in the family Togaviridae, occurring in the eastern United States; it is normally present in certain wild birds as an inapparent infection, but is capable of causing eastern equine encephalomyelitis in horses and humans following transfer by the bites of culicine mosquitoes. Synonym: EEE virus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| middle east | The countries of southwest asia and northeastern africa usually considered as extending from libya on the west to afghanistan on the east. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| far east | A geographic area of east and southeast asia encompassing china, hong kong, japan, korea, macao, mongolia, and taiwan. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Far East haemorrhagic fever | Tick-borne infection with Rickettsia sibirica, seen primarily in Siberia and Mongolia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Far East Russian encephalitis | Tick-borne encephalitis (Eastern subtype). (05 Mar 2000) |