tick-bite fever, noun phrase

Pathology. A common tick-borne typhus fever caused by the eubacterium Rickettsia conori, producing general lassitude, headache, and fever, and transmitted to people by the bite of especially the red-legged tick Rhipicephalus appendicularus and the bont tick. Amblyomma hebraeum, both of the Ixodidae. Cf. biliary fever.
1955 A.C. Chandler Intro. to Parasitology 569The principal forms of tick-borne rickettsial disease are:..spotted fever in North and South America..; boutonneuse fever around the Mediterranean and the same or a very closely related disease known as tick typhus or tick-bite fever in tropical South Africa, central Asia [etc.].
1974 in Std Encycl. of Sn Afr. X. 499Tick-Bite Fever, A typhus fever, widespread in South Africa, which is transmitted to man through the bite of a number of species of ticks. The disease has an incubation period of 6–7 days between the infecting bite and the onset of general symptoms.
1974 Dorland’s Illust. Medical Dict. 1360Rickettsia,..R. conorii, the etiolic agent of boutonneuse fever.., and possibly also Indian tick typhus, Kenya typhus, and South African tick-bite fever; transmitted by Rhipicephalus and Hyemaphysalis, Amyblomma [sic] and Ixodes ticks.
1989 F. Oosthuizen Informant, Grahamstown (now Makhanda, Eastern Cape)You have the classic symptoms of tick-bite fever — and there’s the bite!
1991 J.B. Walker in Onderstepoort Jrnl of Vet. Research Vol.58 No.2, 82Both A[mblyomma] hebraeum and A. variegatum can transmit Rickettsia conori, which causes human tick-bite fever (tick-borne typhus).
A common tick-borne typhus fever caused by the eubacterium Rickettsia conori, producing general lassitude, headache, and fever, and transmitted to people by the bite of especially the red-legged tick Rhipicephalus appendicularus and the bont tick. Amblyomma hebraeum, both of the Ixodidae.
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