| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae infection | Biology & Biotechnology | An infectious disease of pigs characterized by high fever, reddish or purplish spots on the skin, and hemorrhages on to the surfaces of certain of the internal organs in acute cases; and by general debility, lameness, and difficulty in breathing in chronic cases; a specific acute inflammatory disease caused by a hemolytic streptococcus transferred from swine. The eruption is limited to the skin and sharply defined and is usually accompanied by severe constitutional symptoms. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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