francisellosis
English
Etymology
Francisella + -osis.
Noun
francisellosis (uncountable)
- (medicine) Infection by Francisella bacteria.
- 2006 July 1, Karl F. Ottem, “Francisella sp. (Family Francisellaceae) causing mortality in Norwegian cod (Gadus morhua) farming”, in Archives of Microbiology:
- A challenge experiment on cod has been performed to show that this bacterium is the causative agent of a new disease, francisellosis, described from farmed cod. The histopathology is described from cod with chronic francisellosis.
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