Malta fever

This complex is, at least in Portugal, known as Malta fever.

The disease was first called "Malta fever."

He died after contracting Malta Fever, caused by drinking unsterilised goat's milk.

Anthrax and Malta fever are bacterial diseases carried by domestic animals and sometimes spread to humans.

Even with optimal antibrucellic therapy, relapses still occur in 5-10 percent of patients with Malta fever.

He was in Wisconsin for nine years from 1922-1930, although he was only able to coach for five seasons due to attacks of Malta fever.

Work in the area of brucellosis (Goat Fever or Malta Fever)

"In my late 20's I had Malta fever and had to rest for long periods outside on a cot," she said in an interview in 1986.

Andrew Moynihan Victoria Cross recipient who died from 'Malta Fever'.

Identified by Sir David Bruce in 1887, Malta fever was characterised by a low mortality rate but was of indefinite duration.

Bruce saw it was silly to sit patting the heads of these sufferers, and futile to prescribe pills for them-he must find the cause of Malta fever!

It is zoonotic, unlike Brucella ovis, causing Malta fever or localized brucellosis in humans.

Villages Hit Hard Doctors in Teheran who spoke on condition of anonymity said anthrax and Malta fever were particularly rampant in rural villages.

That same year she demonstrated that bacillus abortus caused the disease Brucellosis (undulant fever or Malta fever) in both cattle and humans.

Sir David Bruce isolated B. melitensis from British soldiers who died from Malta fever in Malta.

He is credited with discovering the source of the deadly bacteriological infection known as Malta Fever (the microbe Brucella melitensis, which causes brucellosis).

In 1905 Sir Themistocles Zammit infected a goat with the bacteria Micrococcus Melitanensis which then caught Malta fever.

Under the name Malta fever, the disease now called brucellosis first came to the attention of British medical officers in the 1850s in Malta during the Crimean War.

At one stage in the 1950s, it was renamed the David Bruce Royal Naval Hospital, after the doctor who discovered the root cause of Malta Fever or Brucellosis.

In 1886 Surgeon Major David Bruce discovered the microbe causing the Malta Fever, and in 1905 Themistocles Zammit discovered the fever's sources.

In the 20th century, this name, along with brucellosis (after Brucella, named for Dr. Bruce), gradually replaced the 19th century names Mediterranean fever and Malta fever.

It is also called Bang's disease, Crimean fever, Gibraltar fever, Malta fever, Maltese fever, Mediterranean fever, rock fever, and undulant fever.

During episodes of Malta fever, melitococcemia (presence of brucellae in blood) can usually be demonstrated by means of blood culture in tryptose medium or Albini medium.

After a brief period as a general practitioner in Reigate (1881-83) he joined the Army Medical Service (1883-1919) and in 1884 was stationed in Malta, where he identified Malta Fever.

He spent much of the latter half of 1955 and early 1956 laid low by a stomach ailment that was initially diagnosed as amoebic dysentery but was later thought to be Malta fever or malaria.