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necrobacillosis

noun nec·ro·bac·il·lo·sis \ˌnek-rō-ˌbas-ə-ˈlō-səs\
plural nec·ro·bac·il·lo·ses \-ˌsēz\

Medical Definition of NECROBACILLOSIS

:  any of several infections or diseases (as bullnose or calf diphtheria) that are either localized (as in foot rot) or disseminated through the body of the infected animal and that are characterized by inflammation and ulcerative or necrotic lesions from which a bacterium of the genus Fusobacterium (F. necrophorum synonym Sphaerophorus necrophorus) has been isolated—see quittor

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