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QUERY FEVER

Specialty Definition: QUERY FEVER

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Food & Agriculture

A rickettsial infection of most animal species, including humans, and some birds. It is caused by a rickettsia, Coxiella burnetii, and spread by inhalation, especially of inspissated reproductive exudates, and by ticks, and by the ingestion of raw infected milk. The disease is inapparent in most infected animals but can cause abortion in sheep and goats, and probably cattle. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: QUERY FEVER

Language Translations for "QUERY FEVER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

Q-feber (Australian fever, Coxiella burnetii infection, Derrick-Burnet disease, Queensland fever, Queensland tick fever, Queensland tick typhus). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

Q-koorts (Australian fever, Coxiella burnetii infection, Queensland fever), Australische Q-koorts (Australian fever, Coxiella burnetii infection, Queensland fever). (various references)

   

French

  

query fever (Queensland fever), Q fever (Queensland fever), maladie de Derrick-Burnet (Queensland fever), infection Coxiella burnetii (Queensland fever), fièvre Q (Queensland fever, Queensland tick fever, Queensland tick typhus), fièvre de Mossman (Queensland fever), coxiellose (Queensland fever). (various references)

   

German

  

Q-Fieber (Australian fever, Coxiella burnetii infection, Q fever, Queensland fever), Balkangrippe (Australian fever, Coxiella burnetii infection, Q fever, Queensland fever), australisches Fieber (Australian fever, Coxiella burnetii infection, Q fever, Queensland fever). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πυρετός Q (Australian fever, Coxiella burnetii infection, Q fever, Queensland fever, Queensland tick fever, Queensland tick typhus), πυρετός της Κουηνσλάνδης (Australian fever, Coxiella burnetii infection, Q fever, Queensland fever). (various references)

   

Italian

  

febbre Q (Australian fever, Coxiella burnetii infection, Derrick-Burnet disease, Q fever, Queensland fever, Queensland tick fever, Queensland tick typhus), febbre del Queensland (Australian fever, Coxiella burnetii infection, Q fever, Queensland fever). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eryquay everfay

   

Portuguese

  

febre Q (Australian fever, Coxiella burnetii infection, Q fever, Queensland fever), febre australiana (Australian fever, Coxiella burnetii infection, Q fever, Queensland fever). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

fiebre Q (Australian fever, Coxiella burnetii infection, Q fever, Queensland fever, Queensland tick fever, Queensland tick typhus), fiebre de Queensland (Australian fever, Coxiella burnetii infection, Q fever, Queensland fever). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: QUERY FEVER

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

nosogenum:Coxiella burnetii. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: QUERY FEVER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-e-f-q-r-r-u-v-y"

-3 letters: equerry, queerer.

-4 letters: reefer, revere, revery.

-5 letters: every, ferry, fever, feyer, freer, frere, fryer, furry, queer, query, reefy, reeve, refer, refry, revue, veery.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Translations: Ancient
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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