leptospirosis

English

Etymology

From Leptospira +‎ -osis.

Noun

leptospirosis (countable and uncountable, plural leptospiroses)

1. An acute, infectious, febrile disease of both humans and animals, caused by spirochetes of the genus Leptospira.

Synonyms

• (disease): Weil’s disease, canicola fever, canefield fever, nanukayami fever, 7-day fever, rat catcher's yellows, Fort Bragg fever, black jaundice, pretibial fever, rat fever

Derived terms

• neuroleptospirosis

Translations

disease

• Arabic: داء البريميات m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鉤端螺旋體病 / 钩端螺旋体病 (zh) (gōuduān luóxuántǐbìng), 鈎体病 (gōutǐbìng)

• Czech: leptospiróza f
• Finnish: leptospiroosi
• French: leptospirose (fr) f
• German: Leptospirose (de) f
• Hebrew: עַכְבֶּרֶת (he) f ('achbéret)
• Japanese: レプトスピラ症 (reputosupira-shō)
• Malay: leptospirosis
• Portuguese: leptospirose (pt) f
• Romanian: leptospiroză (ro) f
• Russian: лептоспиро́з (ru) m (leptospiróz)
• Swedish: leptospiros c
• Tamil: எலிக்காய்ச்சல் (elikkāyccal)
• Thai: ฉี่หนู (chìi-nǔu)
• Turkish: leptospiroz

Further reading

• Leptospira on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Leptospira (Noguchi) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lebtospiˈɾosis/ [leβ̞.t̪os.piˈɾo.sis]
• Rhymes: -osis
• Syllabification: lep‧tos‧pi‧ro‧sis

Noun

leptospirosis f (plural leptospirosis)

1. leptospirosis

Further reading

• “leptospirosis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025