Meanings
nounfrancisellosis (uncountable)
- uncountablemedicineInfection by Francisella bacteria.
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.
2006 July 28, Karl F. Ottem, “Francisella sp. (Family Francisellaceae) causing mortality in Norwegian cod (Gadus morhua) farming”, in Archives of Microbiology
Origin
From translingual Francisella + -osis.
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