| HFD | hemorrhagic fever of deer; high-fiber diet; high forceps delivery; hospital field director; human fa... |
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| HFRS | hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome |
| KHF | Korean hemorrhagic fever |
| LBRF | louse-borne relapsing fever |
| LF | labile factor; lactoferrin; laryngofissure; Lassa fever; latex fixation; left foot; left forearm; le... |
| rice-field fever | A febrile illness affecting workers in rice fields, reported in Po valley in Italy and in Sumatra, caused by infection with a species of Leptospira. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| rift valley fever | A febrile disease resembling dengue. It is caused by a mosquito-borne arbovirus. (12 Dec 1998) |
| rift valley fever virus | A mosquito-borne species of the phlebovirus genus and member of the sandfly fever group viruses found in eastern, central, and southern africa, producing massive hepatitis, abortion, and death in sheep, goats, cattle, and other animals. It also has caused disease in humans. (12 Dec 1998) |
| metal fume fever | An occupational disease, characterised by malaria-like symptoms, due to inhalation of particles and fumes of metallic oxides. Fumes are formed by evaporation at very high temperature and condensation in air into fine particles. Synonym: brass founder's ague, foundryman's fever, metal fume fever, zinc fume fever. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Persian relapsing fever | A tick-borne relapsing fever, occurring in the Middle East, caused by Borrelia persica and transmitted by Ornithodoros tholozani and possibly by Ornithodoros lahorensis. Synonym: mianeh disease, mianeh fever. (05 Mar 2000) |
| petechial fever | idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura |
| Roman fever | Malignant tertian, falciparum, or aestivoautumnal fever, formerly prevalent in the Roman Campagna and in the city of Rome; caused by Plasmodium falciparum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| meuse fever | The area around the Meuse River was one of the great battlegrounds of world war i during which this louse-borne disease was first recognised in the trenches (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. Also called wolhynia fever, shin bone fever, quintan fever, five-day fever, his' disease, his-werner disease, werner-his disease. (12 Dec 1998) |
| mianeh fever | A tick-borne relapsing fever, occurring in the Middle East, caused by Borrelia persica and transmitted by Ornithodoros tholozani and possibly by Ornithodoros lahorensis. Synonym: mianeh disease, mianeh fever. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pharyngoconjunctival fever | A disease characterised by fever, pharyngitis, and conjunctivitis, and caused by adenoviruses, often type 3 but occasionally other types. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pharyngoconjunctival fever virus | One of several types of adenoviruses associated with outbreaks of fever and pharyngitis, sometimes with conjunctivitis, especially in service recruits and people in boarding schools. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ross River fever | A mild febrile illness of humans in Australia characterised by polyarthralgia and rash, caused by the Ross River virus, a member of the family Togaviridae, and transmitted by mosquitoes. Synonym: epidemic exanthema, Murray Valley rash, Ross River fever. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Philippine haemorrhagic fever | Severe arbovirus infection with haemorrhagic manifestations, considerable mortality, probably due to mosquito borne dengue virus; seen in tropical and subtropical urban areas of southeast Asia, South Pacific, Australia, Central and South America, and the Caribbean islands. (05 Mar 2000) |
| phlebotomus fever | Influenza-like febrile viral disease caused by several members of the bunyaviridae family and transmitted mostly by the bloodsucking sandfly phlebotomus papatasii. (12 Dec 1998) |
| 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) |