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tabardillo Path.
(tæbəˈdɪləʊ, ‖ tabarˈdiʎo)
[Sp. tabardillo (see quot. 1980).]
A fever common in Mexico and S. America; now spec. a murine typhus (cf. murine a. b) found in Mexico which, unlike most forms of murine typhus, can occur as an epidemic.
[1598W. Phillip tr. Linschoten's Voy. E. & W. Indies I. i. 2/1 Hee fell sicke of a disease called Tauardilha.] 1624W. Aston Let. 10 Dec. in Cabala: sive Scrinia Sacra (1654) i. 166 He hath been held divers dayes with a terrible Calenture, which proved at last a Tabardillo. 1853W. L. Herndon Exploration Valley of Amazon i. v. 113 The most common diseases are pleurisies, rheumatisms, and a putrid fever called tabardillo. 1944R. A. Moore Textbk. Path. xlii. 459 It was shown before 1930 that Brill's disease, tabardillo of Mexico, and endemic typhus of the southeastern United States are all transmitted by the rat flea..and by the rat louse. 1980A. L. Smith Microbiol. & Path. (ed. 12) i. xxv. 300/2 The endemic typhus fever of Mexico is known as tabardillo (from the Spanish word tabardo, meaning a coloured cloak, to designate the mantlelike spotted rash of the disease). |