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Definition of Sandfly fever
1. Noun. A mild viral disease transmitted by the bite of the sand fly Phlebotomus papatasii.
Medical Definition of Sandfly fever
1. Influenza-like febrile viral disease caused by several members of the bunyaviridae family and transmitted mostly by the bloodsucking sandfly phlebotomus papatasii. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sandfly Fever
Literary usage of Sandfly fever
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses: Final Report edited by Joyce C Laslof, Marguerite Knox, John D Baldeschwieler (1997)
"DOD medical personnel evaluated US service members for several diseases transmitted
by insects, including leishmaniasis, sandfly fever, malaria, dengue, ..."
2. The Oxford Medicine by Henry Asbury Christian, James Mackenzie (1920)
"sandfly fever may simulate Rift Valley fever closely, but the geographic distribution
is different and the sandfly vector essential to the former disease. ..."
3. Hygiene of Communicable Diseases: A Handbook for Sanitarians, Medical by Francis Merton Munson, John Harington, Francis Randolph Packard, Fielding Hudson Garrison (1920)
"sandfly fever, phlebotomus fever, three-day fever, summer fever. Definition.
An acute specific fever, lasting three days, and characterized by nervous ..."
4. Manual of Military Hygiene for the Military Services of the United States by Valery Havard (1914)
"(Three-day Fever, sandfly fever.) An infectious fever of short duration, never
fatal but attended with marked debility and causing great loss of time in the ..."
5. Therapeutic Gazette (1921)
"... and again he reports his own case in which he was given 45 grains of quinine
daily for three clays when suffering from sandfly fever and not malaria. ..."
6. American Medicine (1921)
"... and again he reports his own case in which he was given 45 grains of quinine
daily for three days when suffering from sandfly fever and not malaria. ..."
7. Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses: Final Report edited by Joyce C Laslof, Marguerite Knox, John D Baldeschwieler (1997)
"DOD medical personnel evaluated US service members for several diseases transmitted
by insects, including leishmaniasis, sandfly fever, malaria, dengue, ..."
8. The Oxford Medicine by Henry Asbury Christian, James Mackenzie (1920)
"sandfly fever may simulate Rift Valley fever closely, but the geographic distribution
is different and the sandfly vector essential to the former disease. ..."
9. Hygiene of Communicable Diseases: A Handbook for Sanitarians, Medical by Francis Merton Munson, John Harington, Francis Randolph Packard, Fielding Hudson Garrison (1920)
"sandfly fever, phlebotomus fever, three-day fever, summer fever. Definition.
An acute specific fever, lasting three days, and characterized by nervous ..."
10. Manual of Military Hygiene for the Military Services of the United States by Valery Havard (1914)
"(Three-day Fever, sandfly fever.) An infectious fever of short duration, never
fatal but attended with marked debility and causing great loss of time in the ..."
11. Therapeutic Gazette (1921)
"... and again he reports his own case in which he was given 45 grains of quinine
daily for three clays when suffering from sandfly fever and not malaria. ..."
12. American Medicine (1921)
"... and again he reports his own case in which he was given 45 grains of quinine
daily for three days when suffering from sandfly fever and not malaria. ..."
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