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trench fever
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Princeton's WordNet
trench fevernoun
marked by pain in muscles and joints and transmitted by lice
Wiktionary
trench fevernoun
an acute infectious disease, caused by the microorganism Rickettsia quintana and transmitted by the louse Pediculus humanus, that affected very many soldiers during World War I.
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trench fever
Trench fever is an infectious disease transmitted by body lice that is characterized by sudden onset of fever, severe headache, back pain, skin rash, and in severe cases, heart complications. It was first identified during World War I when it was particularly prevalent among soldiers in the trenches, hence its name. The disease is caused by the bacterium Bartonella quintana.
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Trench fever
Trench fever is a moderately serious disease transmitted by body lice. It infected armies in Flanders, France, Poland, Galicia, Italy, Salonika, Macedonia, Mesopotamia, and Egypt in World War I, and the German army in Russia during World War I. From 1915 to 1918 between one-fifth and one-third of all British troops reported ill had trench fever while about one-fifth of ill German and Austrian troops had the disease. The disease persists among the homeless. Outbreaks have been documented, for example, in Seattle and Baltimore in the United States among injection drug users and in Marseille, France, and Burundi. Trench fever is also called Wolhynia fever, shin bone fever, quintan fever, five-day fever, Meuse fever, His disease and His-Werner disease. The disease is caused by the bacterium Bartonella quintana, found in the stomach walls of the body louse. Bartonella quintana is closely related to Bartonella henselae, the agent of cat scratch fever.
U.S. National Library of Medicine
Trench Fever
An intermittent fever characterized by intervals of chills, fever, and splenomegaly each of which may last as long as 40 hours. It is caused by BARTONELLA QUINTANA and transmitted by the human louse.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of trench fever in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of trench fever in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
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