HyperDic: boutonneuse_fever

English > 1 sense of the expression boutonneuse fever:
NOUNstateboutonneuse fever, Marseilles fever, Kenya fever, Indian tick fevera disease (common in India and around the Mediterranean area) caused by a rickettsia that is transmitted to humans by a reddish brown tick (ixodid) that lives on dogs and other mammals
English > boutonneuse fever: 1 sense > noun 1, state
MeaningA disease (common in India and around the Mediterranean area) caused by a rickettsia that is transmitted to humans by a reddish brown tick (ixodid) that lives on dogs and other mammals.
SynonymsMarseilles fever, Kenya fever, Indian tick fever
BroaderdiseaseAn impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning

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