单词 | melioidosis |
释义 | melioidosisn. Medicine and Veterinary Medicine. An infectious disease endemic in South-East Asia, northern Australia, and probably other tropical regions, which is caused by the Gram-negative bacterium Burkholderia psuedomallei (or Burkholderia pseudomallei), present in soil and water, and which can affect humans and other mammals, birds, and reptiles.Melioidosis sometimes resembles glanders, but can manifest itself in a variety of ways, especially as septicaemia, pneumonia, or multiple or localized abscesses. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of rodents > [noun] slobbers1841 melioidosis1921 myxoma1927 myxomatosis1927 murine typhus1933 myxo1951 polyomavirus1958 myxy1961 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > bacterial or viral disorders > [noun] > bacterial disorders endemic syphilis1865 Oroya fever1873 verruga1873 Weil's disease1889 undulant fever1896 pasteurellosis1902 microbism1904 spirillosis1904 spirochaetosis1906 necrobacillosis1907 melioidosis1921 Reiter's disease1922 rickettsiosis1925 leptospirosis1926 Carrion's disease1927 treponematosis1927 bartonellosis1928 brucellosis1930 mycobacteriosis1938 listerellosis1939 listeriosis1941 shigellosis1944 Reiter's syndrome1947 Shigella dysentery1963 pigbel1966 mud fever1969 Lyme arthritis1976 toxic shock syndrome1978 legionellosis1979 TSS1980 1921 A. T. Stanton & W. Fletcher in Trans. 4th Congr. Far Eastern Assoc. Trop. Med. 197 The Greek physicians described under the name ‘Melis’ a variety of conditions resembling glanders. We propose for this disease of such varied form the name ‘Melioidosis’. 1925 A. T. Stanton & W. Fletcher in Lancet 3 Jan. 10/2 Melioidosis..apart from one case in Singapore, has been recognised nowhere except in the towns of Rangoon and Kuala Lumpur. 1939 Nature 11 Nov. 801/1 The great plague of Athens in 430 b.c. may, Scott believes, have been melioidosis. 1952 M. E. Florey Clin. Appl. Antibiotics I. viii. 237 Five West African soldiers employed in Burma were found to be suffering from melioidosis. 1970 K. V. F. Jubb & P. C. Kennedy Pathol. Domest. Animals (ed. 2) I. iii. 162/2 Outbreaks of melioidosis, as well as isolated cases, occur in sheep, goats, and pigs. 1990 Lancet 11 Aug. 376/2 Because the victims were all men from villages in north-eastern Thailand, we investigated melioidosis, which is endemic in that region and predominantly affects men. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1921 |
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