SANDFLY FEVER


Meaning of SANDFLY FEVER in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈsan(d)-ˌflī- ]

noun

Date: 1910

: a disease of brief duration that is characterized by fever, headache, eye pain, malaise, and leukopenia and that is caused by any of several single-stranded RNA viruses (genus Phlebovirus of the family Bunyaviridae ) transmitted by the bite of a sand fly (especially Phlebotomus papatasii ) — called also phlebotomus fever

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