| abs | feb while fever is absent |
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| AHF | acute heart failure; American Health Foundation; American Hepatic Foundation; American Hospital Form... |
| APCF | acute pharyngoconjunctival fever |
| ARF | acute renal failure; acute respiratory failure; acute rheumatic fever; Addiction Research Foundation... |
| ASF | African swine fever; aniline-sulfur-formaldehyde [resin] |
| BVDV | Bovine Virus Diarrhea Virus |
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| GBV-C/HGV | GB Virus C/Hepatitis G Virus |
| HTLV-III/LAV | human T cell lymphotropic virus type III/lymphadenopathy associated virus |
| HTLV-III/LAV | human T lymphotrophic virus type III/lymphadenopathy-associated virus |
| SV40 | 2-simian virus 40 |
| phlebotomus fever viruses | An unclassified serologic group of arboviruses morphologically like Bunyavirus but antigenically unrelated, transmitted by Phlebotomus papatasi (sandfly) and causing phlebotomus fever; there are 20 strains, including Icoarachi and Itaporanga. Synonym: pappataci fever viruses, sandfly fever viruses. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| miliary fever | An infectious disease characterised by profuse sweating and the production of sudamina, occurring formerly in severe epidemics. Synonym: miliaria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| milk fever | A slight elevation of temperature following childbirth, said to be due to the establishment of the secretion of milk, but probably the same as absorption fever, an afebrile metabolic disease, occurring shortly after parturition in dairy cattle, characterised by hypocalcaemia and manifested by loss of consciousness and general paralysis. Synonym: parturient paralysis, parturient paresis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mill fever | <chest medicine> Exposures to cotton dust during the production of yarns, linen and rope can produce chronic obstructive lung disease (after 10 years). Early symptoms include chest tightness. Treatment includes bronchodilators and removal from work environment. (21 Mar 1998) |
| miniature scarlet fever | A reaction consisting of fever, nausea, vomiting, and a transient scarlatiniform rash that appears in a susceptible person when injected with the toxin of Streptococcus pyogenes. Origin: L. Minio, pp. Atus, to colour with minium, red-lead (05 Mar 2000) |
| monoleptic fever | A continued fever having but one paroxysm. Compare: polyleptic fever. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pinta fever | A term used in Mexico for Rocky Mountain spotted fever. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Colorado tick fever | <infectious disease> A rare acute viral infection transmitted via a tick bite (Dermacentor andersoni). Disease is limited to the western United States, particularly Colorado. The incubation period is 3-6 days. Symptoms include fever (that may abate and then recur), sweats, chills, joint pains, headache, photophobia, nausea, vomiting, rash and weakness. Treatment includes tick removal and acetaminophen to control fever. The disease is generally self-limited and nonserious. (27 Sep 1997) |
| colourado tick fever | A febrile illness characterised by chills, aches, vomiting, leukopenia, and sometimes encephalitis. It is caused by the colourado tick fever virus, a reovirus transmitted by the tick dermacentor andersoni. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Wesselsbron fever | A mosquito-borne disease of sheep and man caused by the Wesselsbron disease virus, a member of the family Flaviviridae, and characterised by abortion and lamb mortality in sheep and by fever, headache, muscular pains, and mild rash in humans. Synonym: Wesselsbron disease. Origin: Wesselsbron, town in South Africa where causative agent first isolated (05 Mar 2000) |
| Mossman fever | A fever, noted especially among sugar cane cutters in the Mossman District of North Queensland, caused by a leptospira. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mountain fever | A rare acute viral infection transmitted via a tick bite (Dermacentor andersoni). Disease is limited to the western United States, particularly Colorado. The incubation period is 3-6 days. Symptoms include fever (that may abate and then recur), sweats, chills, joint pains, headache, photophobia, nausea, vomiting, rash and weakness. Treatment includes tick removal and acetaminophen to control fever. The disease is generally self-limited and nonserious. (27 Sep 1997) |
| mountain tick fever | A rare acute viral infection transmitted via a tick bite (Dermacentor andersoni). Disease is limited to the western United States, particularly Colorado. The incubation period is 3-6 days. Symptoms include fever (that may abate and then recur), sweats, chills, joint pains, headache, photophobia, nausea, vomiting, rash and weakness. Treatment includes tick removal and acetaminophen to control fever. The disease is generally self-limited and nonserious. (27 Sep 1997) |
| mud fever | A leptospirosis caused by the grippotyphosa serovar of Leptospira interrogans. Synonym: bluecomb disease of turkeys. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wolhynia fever | Trench fever, a louse-borne disease first recognised in the trenches of world war i, again a major problem in the military in world war II, seen endemically in mexico, n. Africa, e. Europe, and elsewhere. The cause, rochalimaea quintana, is an unusual rickettsia that multiplies in the gut of the body louse. Transmission to people can occur by rubbing infected louse feces into abraded (scuffed) skin or outer layer of the whites of the eyes (conjunctiva). Onset of symptoms is sudden, with high fever, headache, back and leg pain and a fleeting rash. Recovery takes a month or more. Relapses are common. Also called shin bone fever, quintan fever, five-day fever, meuse fever, his' disease, his-werner disease, werner-his disease. (12 Dec 1998) |