boutonneuse fever

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boutonneuse fever - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  boutonneuse fever
      n 1: a disease (common in India and around the Mediterranean
           area) caused by a rickettsia that is transmitted to humans
           by a reddish brown tick (ixodid) that lives on dogs and
           other mammals [syn: Marseilles fever, Kenya fever,
           Indian tick fever, boutonneuse fever]