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INAPUNGA [1 record]

Record 1 2003-06-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Diseases
DEF

(so called from the accumulation of fluid in the pericardium): a serious febrile disease of sheep, goats, and cattle in southern Africa caused by a rickettsial micro-organism (Cowdria ruminantium) transmitted by a tick ...

OBS

veld sickness: South Africa.

OBS

bush sickness: Africa.

Key term(s)
  • Boschziekte
  • inapunga
  • heartwater disease

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maladies des animaux
DEF

Maladie infectieuse, non contagieuse, des ruminants, due à Rickettsia ruminantium, en Afrique et à Madagascar. [...] La lésion la plus caractéristique est une hydropisie des séreuses notamment du péricarde. Les tiques sont les vecteurs de la rickettsie.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Enfermedades de los animales
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