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Q-fever Definition


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Q-fever
noun
    1. pathol.
      An acute disease with flu-like symptoms that is transmitted to humans by rickettsia, the same type of micro-organism that causes typhoid.
Etymology: 1930s: from query, because at first the cause of the diseases was unknown.



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