edwardsiellosis
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A disease of fish caused by the pathogenic bacterium Edwardsiella tarda.
Example Sentences
- "Edwardsiellosis of eel breaks out with high incidences every year in farm ponds in the Yoshida area (Wakabayashi and Egusa, 1973b), but is uncommon in other eel-culturing areas. Recently, however, E. tarda was reported to be isolated from eels in farm ponds in Aichi Prefecture adjacent to Shizuoka Prefecture (Uno and Muroga, 1974)."
- "According to the available reports, edwardsiellosis is restricted to the southern states of the USA and Japan."