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Definition of Dumdum fever

1. Noun. Leishmaniasis of the viscera.

Medical Definition of Dumdum fever

1. A chronic disease, occurring in India, Assam, China, the area formerly known as the Mediterranean littoral areas, the Middle East, India, Pakistan, China, South and Central America, Asia, Africa caused by Leishmania donovani and transmitted by the bite of an appropriate species of sandfly of the genus Phlebotomus or Lutzomyia; the organisms grow and multiply in macrophages, eventually causing them to burst and liberate amastigote parasites which then invade other macrophages; proliferation of macrophages in the bone marrow causes crowding out of erythroid and myeloid elements, resulting in leukopenia, and anaemia, splenomegaly, and hepatomegaly which are characteristic, along with enlargement of lymph nodes; fever, fatigue, malaise, and secondary infections also occur; different strains of leishmaniasis donovani occur; leishmaniasis infantum in Eurasia, leishmaniasis chagasi in Latin America. Synonym: Assam fever, black sickness, Burdwan fever, cachectic fever, Dumdum fever, kala azar, tropical splenomegaly. (05 Mar 2000)

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Literary usage of Dumdum fever

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1. A Text-book upon the pathogenic Bacteria and Protozoa for students of by Joseph McFarland (1915)
"In 1900 Leishman* noticed in the spleen of a soldier returned from India and suffering from "dumdum fever"—a fever acquired at Dumdum, an unhealthy military ..."

2. Veterinary Bacteriology: A Treatise on the Bacteria, Yeasts, Molds, and by Robert Earle Buchanan (1911)
"Leishman, in 1900, observed this parasite in smears from the spleen of a patient that had died of dumdum fever. His account was published in 1903. ..."

3. An Introduction to the History of Medicine: With Medical Chronology by Fielding Hudson Garrison (1914)
"All these discoveries have associated the Leishman- Donovan bodies with the tropical splenomegaly, dumdum fever or kala-azar. In 1903, James Homer Wright ..."

4. Medical Diagnosis for the Student and Practitioner by Charles Lyman Greene (1917)
"LEISHMANIASIS ("Kola Azar," "Tropical Splenomegaly," "dumdum fever," "Black Fever") Historical Note.—This curiously obscure and deadly disease has for some ..."

5. Pathogenic Micro-organisms: Including Bacteria and Protozoa; a Practical by William Hallock Park, Anna Wessels Williams (1905)
"These bodies were first minutely described by Leishman in 1900 as being present in certain cells in the spleen of cases called by him dumdum fever occurring ..."

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