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

Translations

disease

• Arabic: داء البريميات m
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: leptospiróza f
• Finnish: leptospiroosi
• French: leptospirose (fr) f
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• German: Leptospirose f
• Japanese: レプトスピラ症 (reputosupira-shō)
• Malay: leptospirosis
• Portuguese: leptospirose (pt) f
• Russian: лептоспиро́з (ru) m (leptospiróz)
• Thai: ฉี่หนู (chìi-nǔu)

Further reading

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

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Spanish

Noun

leptospirosis f (plural leptospirosis)

1. leptospirosis