The disease can affect humans and cause undulant fever, although such cases are rare.

Humans, in turn, can acquire undulant fever by drinking milk.

At the time, his main interest was the bacterium that causes brucellosis, or undulant fever.

Later, Asbury is informed that he has undulant fever, probably from drinking raw milk.

In humans, it can cause undulant fever.

It is transmitted to humans as undulant fever, producing flu-like symptoms which may last for years.

Generally a lifelong affliction, undulant fever causes stiffness of joints, similar to a recurring flu.

"Undulant fever ain't so bad, Azzberry," he murmured.

Brucella melitensis is the cause of undulant fever in man and of abortion in goats.

Brucellosis, which is spread by contact with body fluids, can also cause incurable undulant fever in humans, especially those who work with infected animals.

In humans the disease is called undulant fever and causes fever, joint pain and other flulike symptoms.

"The host FGHJs caught something that caused a mild, undulant fever, and recovered.

The popular name undulant fever originates from the characteristic undulance (or "wave-like" nature) of the fever, which rises and falls over weeks in untreated patients.

For others, recurring symptoms of malaria and undulant fever explain Anderson's depression and the apparent "fugue states" that occasionally accompanied it during this two-year period.

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

Bang's bacillus was the cause of the contagious Bang's disease (now known as Brucellosis) which can cause pregnant cattle to abort, and causes undulant fever in humans.

While health officials generally frown on consumption of raw milk because of the potential for spreading milk-borne diseases like tuberculosis and undulant fever, supporters say precautions and inspections have reduced those risk factors.

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

In Connecticut, there have been no outbreaks of tuberculosis or brucellosis (which causes undulant fever in humans) among dairy cattle since the 1940's, according to Mr. Moquin of the Agriculture Department.

In the first stage of the disease, septicaemia occurs and leads to the classic triad of undulant fevers, sweating (often with characteristic smell, likened to wet hay), and migratory arthralgia and myalgia.

Following surgery for stomach cancer, Edsel Ford died of undulant fever in 1943 at Gaukler Point, his lakeside home in Grosse Pointe Shores, at the age of 49.

The Widal test is a presumptive serological test for enteric fever or undulant fever whereby bacteria causing typhoid fever are mixed with serum containing specific antibodies obtained from an infected individual.

Two factors have brought about the current situation: overpopulation of bison in the park and the park's status as the last major reservoir in the United States of brucellosis, a disease that crops up in humans as undulant fever.

The National Academy of Sciences estimates that as many as half of Yellowstone's bison test positive for brucellosis, a bacterial infection that can cause spontaneous abortion in cattle and, though it is rare, undulant fever in humans.