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Glanders

noun
1.
A destructive and contagious bacterial disease of horses that can be transmitted to humans.





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... testicles and the ovaries, have a high resistance to the growth of bacteria. The disease may be localized in certain organs because only in these do the bacteria find favorable conditions for growth. In spite of a high general resistance to infection the lesions in chronic glanders are most marked in the muscles, those of poliomyelitis in the spinal cord. There are few bacterial diseases which are localized in the blood, but many of the diseases caused by protozoa have this localization. In every infection some organisms enter the blood, which acts as ...
— Disease and Its Causes • William Thomas Councilman


Words linked to "Glanders" :   zoonosis, zoonotic disease


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