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trench fever: see rickettsia rickettsia , any of a group of very small microorganisms, many disease-causing, that live in vertebrates and are transmitted by bloodsucking parasitic arthropods such as fleas, lice (see louse), and ticks.
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trench fever [′trench ‚fē·vər]

(medicine)

A louse-borne infection that is caused byRickettsia quintanaand is characterized by headache, chills, rash, pain in the legs and back, and often by a relapsing fever.

Trench Fever

(Wolhynian fever, five-day fever), an epidemic disease belonging to the rickettsioses. It was first described by the German scientists H. Werner and H. His in 1916. It is transmitted by lice. Major epidemics of trench fever broke out among the troops during World War I (1914-18) on the Western and Eastern fronts (especially in Volyn’ [Wolhynia] Province; hence the name), in the Balkans, and in Syria and Mesopotamia.

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Trench Fever (redirected from His disease)

Trench Fever
(redirected from His disease)