A bacterial disease in dogs, also called Canicola fever, spread by contaminated urine.
Modern scientific Latin from canis (dog) + -cola (inhabitant), literally 'dog-dweller,' referring to the bacterium Leptospira canicola that inhabits dogs.
Canicola is actually a specific strain of leptospirosis that was first identified and named specifically because dogs were its primary reservoir—scientists named the disease after where it lives.
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