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contagious abortion

noun

Veterinary Pathology.
  1. brucellosis of domestic cattle, an infectious disease characterized by spontaneous abortion and caused by the bacterium Brucella abortus; Bang's disease.
  2. any of several diseases causing spontaneous abortion of domestic animals, as vibriosis or salmonellosis.


contagious abortion

noun

  1. another name for brucellosis
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of contagious abortion1

First recorded in 1905–10
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It was originally coined for strategies to eliminate “contagious abortion” from bacterial infection in sheep and cattle.

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Even a cow that wanders past is ill not merely with rinderpest and “red-water” but with “contagious abortion.”

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Bang and Stribolt subsequently examined pieces of placenta from a large number of cases of contagious abortion, and found the bacillus microscopically in practically all cases.

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The organism causing contagious abortion in cattle is known to be present in the milk of the infected animal at the time of its withdrawal from the udder.

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This, however, is less necessary in the mare than in the cow, in which the prevalent contagious abortion must be counteracted by the persistent local use of antiseptics.

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