| 单词 |
Carrion's disease |
| 释义 |
Carrion's disease, n. Med.|kærɪˈɒnz|
[tr. Sp. enfermedad de Carrión (E. Odriozola 1895, in Monitor Méd. (Lima) X. 309), f. the name of D. A. Carrión (1850–86), Peruvian physician, who died after inoculating himself with material from a verruga lesion.]
A sometimes fatal bacterial disease that is endemic in Peru and is transmitted by sandflies; esp. the severe acute form of the disease (= Oroya fever n.), which may be followed by a mild chronic form, verruga peruana (see verruga n.).
1927Jrnl. Exper. Med. XLV. 187 The inoculation..of verruga peruana is capable of inducing in susceptible individuals a severe febrile systemic infection, such as that to which Carrion succumbed. The designation ‘Carrion's disease’ is therefore the appropriate one for both forms of the infection. 1949,1962[see Oroya fever n.]. 1978Nature 22 June 599/2 This was..achieved during intensive DDT spraying campaigns against Lu. verrucarum, which had been indicated as the vector of human bartonellosis (Carrion's disease). 1987Oxf. Textbk. Med. (ed. 2) I. v. 373/2 Bartonellosis (Carrión's disease, verruga peruana, verruga fever, Oroya fever, Guaitará fever) is a non-contagious infectious disease, which is endemic in the Western Andes and Interandean valleys of Peru. |
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