| 释义 |
theileriasis|θaɪləˈraɪəsɪs|
Also theileriˈosis
[f. theileria + -iasis, -osis.]
An acute, usually fatal, feverish disease of cattle, sheep, and certain other vertebrates caused by a protozoan of the genus Theileria or a closely related genus and transmitted by ticks; cf. East Coast fever s.v. east D. 1 b.
1944Indian Jrnl. Vet. Sci. XV. 149 (title) Control of cattle theileriasis in calves in the Punjab. 1959Adv. Vet. Sci. V. 241 The name theileriosis has come to designate any member of a group of diseases of vertebrates produced by several species of protozoan parasites belonging to the genera Theileria, Gonderia, and Crytauxzoon. 1962J. A. Smyth Introd. Animal Parasitol. ix. 109 This organism [sc. Theileria parva] is the cause of the deadly ‘theileriasis’ or East-Coast Fever in cattle. 1979Protozool. Abstracts III. 38/1 A good review is given of theileriasis of cattle in India. 1979Nature 5 July p. xiii (Advt.), There are in the laboratory of the Director of ILRAD two vacancies for immunologists to work on theileriosis. |