Malta fever

American  

noun

Pathology.

1. brucellosis.

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Malta fever British  

noun

1. another name for brucellosis

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Etymology

Origin of Malta fever

First recorded in 1865–70

Example Sentences

A member of the Royal Army Medical Corps, he discovered the microorganism in the tsetse fly which causes African sleeping sickness; and the cause of Malta fever.

From Time Magazine Archive

Malta fever and Brucellosis are commonly known in the U. S. as undulant fever.

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Newshawks were told he had Malta fever, so named because British Navy men stationed in the Mediterranean once got it from the milk of Maltese goats.

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During the Crimean War, thousands of British soldiers quartered in the Mediterranean area were disabled by Malta fever.

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A similar phenomenon has been demonstrated in the case of Malta fever, cholera, plague, infection with B. coli, "meat-poisoning" due to G�rtner's bacillus, and various other infections.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various