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Oroya fever Path.|ɒˌrɔɪə ˈfiːvə(r)|
[f. La Oroya, the name of a town in central Peru + fever n.1]
An acute, frequently fatal, febrile and hæmolytic disease which occurs in Peru as the first stage of infection with the bacterium Bartonella bacilliformis, the second, chronic, stage being verruga peruana.
1873T. J. Hutchinson Two Yrs. in Peru II. xx. 61 The ‘Oroya fever’, as it was called, from the simple circumstance of its having occurred on this line [sc. the Callao-Lima-Oroya railway line] (although more than a hundred miles distant from the terminus at the little town of Oroya), caused a dreadful mortality here during the years of 1870 and 1871. 1903Encycl. Medica XIII. 326 Death ensues without any appearance of eruption, constituting the grave form or Oroya fever. 1949M. A. Jennings in H. W. Florey et al. Antibiotics II. xxxi. 1033 Bartonella bacilliformis, the organism of Carrion's disease—known also in its acute stage as Oroya fever, and in its chronic stage as verruga peruana—is highly sensitive to penicillin. 1962Gordon & Lavoipierre Entomol. for Students of Med. xx. 138 In addition to being a severe biting nuisance, sandflies are responsible for the transmission to man of several forms of leishmaniasis, a sand⁓fly fever and Oroya fever or Carrion's disease. 1974Passmore & Robson Compan. Med. Stud. III. i. xii. 86/2 In those who survive Oroya fever, after an interval..the dermal lesions of verruga peruana develop. |