clostridiosis

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noun

Infection with a clostridium.

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Meanings

nounclostridiosis (plural clostridioses)

plural clostridioses

  1. biologyInfection with a clostridium.
  2. countbiologyAn instance of such infection; an infection with a clostridium.

    Of the sick horses, equine intestinal clostridiosis was diagnosed in 2 horses with large C perfringens counts (10⁴ to 10⁷ colony-forming units/g) and with acute diarrhea.

    1981, M. Wierup, J.A. DiPietro, “Bacteriologic examination of equine fecal flora as a diagnostic tool for equine intestinal clostridiosis”, in American Journal of Veterinary Research, volume 42, number 12, →PMID, pages 2167–2169

Origin

From clostridium + -osis.

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