Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A general name, in human and comparative medicine, for infections of the red blood-corpuscles by parasitic protozoa of the genus Piroplasma.
  • noun Proposed by Wilson and Chowning (1904) as a technical name for Rocky Mountain spotted fever of man, under the supposition that it was caused by a parasite classified as Piroplasma hominis.

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  • noun babesiosis

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Examples

  • Many other diseases may attack cattle, such as piroplasmosis

    Chapter 6 1977

  • Other Diseases - Among the epizootic diseases, rinderpest and piroplasmosis seem to affect buffaloes as much as cattle.

    7 Health 1981

  • They spread fevers, typhus, brucellosis and piroplasmosis.

    Chapter 6 1977

  • Notes on parasitic Protozoa, tropical diseases, ticks, piroplasmosis, etc. DANIELS, C.W. Persistence of the Tropical Diseases of Man Due to

    Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane

  • Eleven horses in North Carolina have tested positive for equine piroplasmosis, an animal disease the U.S. was free of for 20 years.

    News & Record Article Feed 2010

  • The New Mexico Livestock Board has barred the import of horses from Texas counties that have confirmed cases of equine piroplasmosis.

    The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal:Today's Headlines 2010

  • The US horse industry has faced recent outbreaks including contagious equine metritis, equine piroplasmosis, vesicular stomatitis and equine herpesvirus.

    Horsetalk.co.nz Headlines 2010

  • The quarantine of horses trained by Bret Calhoun, Kevin Favre, and Brian House at Lone Star that was ordered June 4 by the Texas Animal Health Commission was lifted early June 5 after an error was found in the reporting of the original laboratory results that indicated two horses stabled at the track, and a third that recently shipped out to New Mexico, had tested positive for equine piroplasmosis.

    TheHorse.com News 2010

  • According to a report of the State Committee for Veterinary Medicine, the ban was introduced on June 11 in response to an outbreak of piroplasmosis disease in the United States, and an outbreak of Venezuelan encephalomyelitis in Panama.

    www.kyivpost.com 2010

  • They check for equine piroplasmosis, equine infectious anaemia (EIA) and equine viral arteritis (EVA) before allowing the donkeys to mix with existing residents.

    Horsetalk.co.nz Headlines 2009

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