melioidosis

melioidosis definition - medical

mel·i·oi·do·sis (mĕlˌē-oi-dōˈsĭs)

noun
An infectious disease, primarily affecting rodents in India and Southeast Asia but also communicable to humans, that is caused by the bacterium Pseudomonas pseudomallei; it produces a characteristic caseous nodule that breaks down into an abscess.

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