leptospirosis

English

Etymology

From Leptospira +‎ -osis

Noun

leptospirosis (countable and uncountable, plural leptospiroses)

An acute, infectious, febrile disease of both humans and animals, caused by spirochetes of the genus Leptospira.

Synonyms

(disease): Weil’s disease, canicola fever, canefield fever, nanukayami fever, 7-day fever, rat catcher's yellows, Fort Bragg fever, black jaundice, pretibial fever

Translations

disease

Arabic: داء البريميات‎ m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 鉤端螺旋體病 (zh), 钩端螺旋体病 (gōuduān luóxuántǐbìng), 鈎体病, 钩体病 (gōutǐbìng)
Czech: leptospiróza f
Finnish: leptospiroosi
French: leptospirose (fr) f

German: Leptospirose f
Japanese: レプトスピラ症 (reputosupira-shō)
Malay: leptospirosis
Portuguese: leptospirose (pt) f
Russian: лептоспиро́з (ru) m (leptospiróz)

Further reading

Leptospira on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Leptospira (Noguchi) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Spanish

Noun

leptospirosis f (plural leptospirosis)

leptospirosis

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