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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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ud cure a chap as was makin' ready for typhus fever.
The Secret Garden by Burnett, Frances Hodgson View in context
I carried the infection of crime with me, and she has caught it as she would the typhus fever, the cholera, the plague
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
But since he did not mean to marry for the next five years-- his more pressing business was to look into Louis' new book on Fever, which he was specially interested in, because he had known Louis in Paris, and had followed many anatomical demonstrations in order to ascertain the specific differences of typhus and typhoid.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
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