francisellosis
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From translingual Francisella + -osis.
Noun
[edit]francisellosis (uncountable)
- (pathology) Infection by Francisella bacteria.
- 2006 July, Karl F. Ottem, “Francisella sp. (Family Francisellaceae) causing mortality in Norwegian cod (Gadus morhua) farming”, in Archives of Microbiology:
- A challenge experiment on cod has been performed to show that this bacterium is the causative agent of a new disease, francisellosis, described from farmed cod. The histopathology is described from cod with chronic francisellosis.