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typhus

Any one of a group of infectious diseases caused by bacteria transmitted by lice, fleas, mites, and ticks. Symptoms include fever, headache, and rash. The most serious form is epidemic typhus, which also affects the brain, heart, lungs, and kidneys and is associated with insanitary overcrowded conditions. Treatment is by antibiotics.

The bacteria responsible are of the genus Rickettsia, especially R. pronazekii. A preventive vaccine exists.
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In Europe in the past and Africa today, persons who "recovered" from the epidemic typhus of their youth suffer relapses of Brill-Zinsser disease and have become a reservoir of new louse-borne epidemics (12).
Rats, lice, and Zinsser by Weissmann, Gerald / Emerging Infectious Diseases
In 1967, Atlacomulco, a county in the state of Mexico that had been free of typhus for 5 years, experienced an outbreak of louseborne typhus associated with a case of Brill-Zinsser disease in a 76-year-old man who bad a history of epidemic typhus.
Typhus group rickettsiae antibodies in rural Mexico by Walker, David H. / Emerging Infectious Diseases
prowazekii outbreaks in Europe, based on our findings of an outbreak of epidemic typhus in Russia, a case of Brill-Zinsser disease in France (15), and a case of epidemic typhus imported from Algeria (9).
Human pathogens in body and head lice. (Dispatches) by Raoult, Didier / Emerging Infectious Diseases
 
 
 
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