(n.) An inflammation, with enlargement, of a lymphatic gland, esp. in the groin, as in syphilis.
Example Sentences:
(1) The humeroscapular bone is present in the great horned owl (Bubo virginianus), the screech owl (Otus asio), the barred owl (Strix varia), the red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicencis), the Cooper's hawk (Accipiter cooperii), and the sharp-shinned hawk (Accipiter striatus).
(2) Eight of nine (89%) buboes followed to the endpoint on the 3-day rosoxacin regimen were cured, versus three of six (50%) on the single-dose regimen.
(3) Despite an increased knowledge of the pathogenesis of chancroid, important questions such as growth requirements, bubo-formation, role of cell-mediated immunity and ulcer formation are still unanswered.
(4) One third of all cats had the triad of lethargy, anorexia, and fever in addition to buboes; one quarter had this triad plus abscesses.
(5) Patients with buboes responded equally well to both treatments.
(6) A 62-year-old woman developed bubonic plague with an epitrochlear bubo one to two days after skinning two cottontail rabbits.
(7) For the first time three cases of the detection of Francisella tularensis, made by means of the direct immunofluorescence test in the fluid obtained from punctured buboes or in purulent matter taken from patients with the ulcerous bubonic form of tularemia, are presented.
(8) In order to find more specific evidence of predator digestion, we used a scanning electron microscope (SEM) to examine the surface microstructure of bones and teeth consumed by Bubo virginianus (great horned owl) and Canis latrans (coyote), which prey upon similar species.
(9) A similar disease was also produced with this virus in the great horned owl (Bubo virginianus), screech owl (Otus asio), and ring-necked turtle dove (Streptopelia risoria).
(10) Most patients presented with fever, malaise, and an acute painful lymphadenitis (bubo).
(11) Finally, anaerobes were isolated in 17 (57%) of ulcers without bubo, 11 (65%) of ulcers with nonfluctuant bubo, and 18 (90%) of chancroid ulcers associated with fluctuant bubo.
(12) Inguinal bubo, herpes pregenitalis, condylomata acuminata, erosive balanitis and traumatic ulcers were seen less frequently.
(13) The diagnosis was made by isolation of bacteria from a ruptured bubo and by demonstration of an antibody titer to Yersinia pestis.
(14) Ulcers and buboes were followed clinically and bacteriologically for 1 month.
(15) Natural infection has been observed in the Eagle Owl (Bubo bubo L.), Long-eared Owl (Asio otus L.) and Snowy Owl (nyctea scandiaca L.) In addition the Little Owl (Athene noctua Scopolic) and Tengmalms Owl (Aegolius funereus L.) was experimentally infected.
(16) A case has been described in which the inguinal gland was involved producing a bubo simulating that caused by other commoner conditions.
(17) Buboes were appreciated on physical examination, and the diagnosis of bubonic plague was confirmed by positive blood cultures.
(18) The budgie (Melopsittacus undulatas), the common pigeon (Columba domestica), the yellow-bellied sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius), and the horned owl (Bubo virginianus) were chosen as representative of the bird.
(19) Meningitis developed in three patients and pneumonia in two patients; these five patients a-l had buboes in the axillary region.
(20) In an effort to establish comparative data within the genus Leucocytozoon, elongate gametocytes of L. ziemanni from naturally infected great horned owls (Bubo virginianus) were examined by electron microscopy.
Bubonic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a bubo or buboes; characterized by buboes.
Example Sentences:
(1) In view of the limiting or critical values attributed to flea indices above all the "cheopis" index, proposed by several authors as a complementary measure for bubonic plague surveillance, the community of Belo Horizonte would have been exposed to this infection.
(2) This case provides another example of 67Ga localizing to areas of infection, indicating potential utility in future cases of bubonic plague.
(3) (Second place goes to ground squirrels, which harbour the fleas that carry bubonic plague, a few cases of which are reported in California each summer.)
(4) Three patients with septicemic plague and three with bubonic plague died.
(5) Anginous-bubonic tularemia was the dominant form of the disease.
(6) Systematic segregation continued into the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when the British colonial government forcibly resettled black communities under the pretence of curbing an outbreak of the bubonic plague.
(7) But most of the traffic was going the other way: smallpox, measles, and bubonic plague were only some of the Old World diseases which infiltrated the New World, swiftly decimating thousands of Native Americans.
(8) The low calcium response of wild type Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of bubonic plague, and of enteropathogenic Yersinia pseudotuberculosis and Yersinia enterocolitica is known to be mediated by a shared Lcr plasmid of about 70 kb.
(9) A 62-year-old woman developed bubonic plague with an epitrochlear bubo one to two days after skinning two cottontail rabbits.
(10) For the first time three cases of the detection of Francisella tularensis, made by means of the direct immunofluorescence test in the fluid obtained from punctured buboes or in purulent matter taken from patients with the ulcerous bubonic form of tularemia, are presented.
(11) Thus this strain of Y. pestis is a nonlethal, effective weapon against bubonic plague in a susceptible species.
(12) However, I think some solace can be gained from the fact that the human race has faced many such contagions in the past for example, bubonic plague, cholera, syphilis, and most recently, polio, to name a few.
(13) An 11-year-old boy developed axillary bubonic plague and plague meningitis 3 days after skinning a dead coyote near Albuquerque, New Mexico.
(14) Since no evidence of a rodent epizootic was uncovered in the village itself, and because of the distinct clustering of the bubonic cases, human-to-human spread of plague by infected ectoparasite vectors, presumably Pulex irritans, is thought to have occurred.This focus probably represents the most southerly boundary of the central Asian plague area yet identified.
(15) And yet a scan of the text of Cameron’s speech yields no results for either “bubonic” or “world war three”.
(16) One historical implication of the event is the need to consider the possibility of a return of large-scale epidemic disease rivaling the sweeps of bubonic plague in fourteenth-century Europe.
(17) Johnson hit back: “I think all this talk of world war three and bubonic plague is demented , frankly.” And who could disagree?
(18) Buboes were appreciated on physical examination, and the diagnosis of bubonic plague was confirmed by positive blood cultures.
(19) An active case search revealed 76 suspected plague cases out of which 11 were found to have bubonic plague.
(20) The system exploits the close genetic similarity between Yersinia pestis, the etiological agent of bubonic plague, and enteropathogenic Yersinia pseudotuberculosis and Yersinia enterocolitica.