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Definition of Malta fever

1. Noun. Infectious bacterial disease of human beings transmitted by contact with infected animals or infected meat or milk products; characterized by fever and headache.

Medical Definition of Malta fever

1. A rare infection (less than 200 cases per year in the U.S.) caused by bacteria of the genus Brucella. Human infection results from occupational exposure to infected animals or by ingestion of infected milk, milk products or animal tissue. Symptoms are non-specific and include fever, malaise and weight loss. (27 Sep 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Malta Fever

Literary usage of Malta fever

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Lancet (1898)
"This minute coccus, which Bruce in the year 1887 recognised as the cause of Malta fever and obtained in pure cultivation,, produces a similar disease in the ..."

2. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1921)
"Malta fever Malta fever is a general infection not unlike other specific bacteri- ... Malta fever is a disease primarily of goats, secondarily of man. ..."

3. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1899)
"Moreover, it seems to us of considerable importance to determine positively whether Malta fever actually exists on this side of the Atlantic. ..."

4. A Manual of clinical diagnosis by means of laboratory methods, for students by Charles Edmund Simon (1902)
"Malta fever. In Mediterranean or Malta fever the specific organism, ... RP Strong and WK Musgrave, " The Occurrence of Malta fever in Manila," Phila. Med. ..."

5. Special pathology and therapeutics of the diseases of domestic animals v. 2 by Ferenc Hutyra (1912)
"Malta fever. (Mediterranean Fever.) Malta fever is a febrile disease of man, which most frequently occurs on the Island of Malta, then in the countries ..."

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