| double quotidian fever | Malaria in which two paroxysms of fever occur daily. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| drug fever | Fever resulting from an allergic reaction to a drug that clears rapidly on discontinuation of the drug. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Dumdum fever | A chronic disease, occurring in India, Assam, China, the area formerly known as the Mediterranean littoral areas, the Middle East, India, Pakistan, China, South and Central America, Asia, Africa caused by Leishmania donovani and transmitted by the bite of an appropriate species of sandfly of the genus Phlebotomus or Lutzomyia; the organisms grow and multiply in macrophages, eventually causing them to burst and liberate amastigote parasites which then invade other macrophages; proliferation of macrophages in the bone marrow causes crowding out of erythroid and myeloid elements, resulting in leukopenia, and anaemia, splenomegaly, and hepatomegaly which are characteristic, along with enlargement of lymph nodes; fever, fatigue, malaise, and secondary infections also occur; different strains of leishmaniasis donovani occur; leishmaniasis infantum in Eurasia, leishmaniasis chagasi in Latin America. Synonym: Assam fever, black sickness, Burdwan fever, cachectic fever, Dumdum fever, kala azar, tropical splenomegaly. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Dutton's relapsing fever | African tick-borne relapsing fever caused by Borrelia duttonii and spread by the soft tick, Ornithodoros moubata. Synonym: Dutton's relapsing fever. (05 Mar 2000) |
| icterohemorrhagic fever | Infection with the variety of Leptospira interrogans serotype known as icterohemorrhagiae, characterised by fever, jaundice, haemorrhagic lesions, azotemia, and central nervous system manifestations. Synonym: leptospirosis icterohemorrhagica. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ilheus fever | A febrile illness caused by the Ilheus virus, an arborvirus (genus Flavivirus), and transmitted by a mosquito. See: Ilheus encephalitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| inanition fever | An elevation of temperature in infants after reduction of fluid intake, diarrhoea, or vomiting; probably caused by reduced available body water, with reduced heat loss by evaporation; an analogous condition in adults is seen when exertion is continued in the face of dehydration. Synonym: dehydration fever, exsiccation fever, inanition fever. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Q fever | <infectious disease> An acute (abrupt-onset), self-limited febrile illness first reported in 1935 in Queensland, Australia. The Q is said not to be for Queensland, but for query since the cause of the disease was long a query (question mark). It is caused by the bacterium Coxiella burnetii, a rickettsia which mainly afflicts sheep and cattle but can be transmitted to humans who have contact with infected animals. Symptoms resemble those of influenza and include sudden onset of fever, headache, malaise, and pneumonia (interstitial pneumonitis) but no rash. (12 Dec 1998) |
| quartan fever | A malarial fever with paroxysms that recur every 72 hours or every fourth day, reckoning the day of the paroxysm as the first; due to the schizogony and release of merozoites from infected cells, with invasion of new red blood corpuscles by Plasmodium malariae. Synonym: quartan fever, quartan malaria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| induced fever | 1. Obsolete synonym for pyrotherapy. 2. Treatment of fever. Synonym: artificial fever, induced fever. Origin: pyreto-+ G. Therapeia, treatment (05 Mar 2000) |
| quintan fever | A louse-borne disease first recognised in the trenches of world war i (and so called trench fever), 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 conjunctiva (whites of the eyes). 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. Quintan means recurring every 5 days and refers to the fever. Also called five-day fever. Other names include wolhynia fever, shin bone fever, meuse fever, his' disease, his-werner disease, werner-his disease. (12 Dec 1998) |
| quotidian fever | Malaria in which the paroxysms occur daily; usually a double tertian malaria, in which there is an infection by two distinct groups of Plasmodium vivax parasites sporulating alternately every 48 hours, but also may be an infection by the pernicious form of malarial parasite, P. Falciparum, combined with P. Vivax, or infection by two distinct P. Falciparum generations, which mature on different days; also may develop from infection with P. Knowlesi. Synonym: quotidian fever. (05 Mar 2000) |
| intermittent malarial fever | See: intermittent malaria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| inundation fever | See Typhus, scrub. (12 Dec 1998) |
| island fever | See Typhus, scrub. (12 Dec 1998) |