| 单词 | eastern equine encephalomyelitis |
| 释义 | > as lemmaseastern equine encephalomyelitis 8. Medicine and Veterinary Medicine. Designating a type of encephalitis or encephalomyelitis originally identified in horses in the eastern United States, which also affects humans and certain other mammals, and is caused by an alphavirus transmitted by mosquitoes. Now usually in eastern equine encephalitis, eastern equine encephalomyelitis. Also: designating the virus causing this disease. Cf. western adj. 8e.Eastern equine encephalitis also occurs in other parts of the Americas. In both horses and humans it is a serious disease with a significant mortality rate. Its causative virus is very closely related to that of Venezuelan equine encephalitis and the somewhat milder western equine encephalitis. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [adjective] > other disorders of horses incorded1566 crest-sunk1618 crestfallen1696 chest-foundered1703 clapped1760 eastern1933 1933 C. Ten Broeck & M. H. Merrill in Proc. Soc. Exper. Biol. & Med. 1933–4 31 217 (title) A serological difference between Eastern and Western Equine Encephalomyelitis virus. 1938 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 22 Sept. 411/1 The purpose of the present communication is to announce the isolation, from a fatal human case of encephalitis, of a virus agent which appears to be identical with the Eastern variety of equine encephalomyelitis. 1954 Exper. Parasitol. 3 294 The isolation of the eastern virus from chicken mites and chicken lice collected..probably indicates previous viremia in chickens. 1987 E. W. Burr Compan. Bird Med. xxxi. 224/1 Birds are natural reservoirs for arthropod-borne viral diseases such as western and eastern equine encephalomyelitis. 1999 Newsweek 11 Oct. 77/3 The tissue tested negative for the most plausible encephalitis viruses (eastern, western and Venezuelan equine encephalitis). < as lemmas |
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