typhus
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typhus
any one of a group of acute infectious rickettsial diseases characterized by high fever, skin rash, and severe headache
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Typhus
an infectious disease accompanied by high fever and derangements of consciousness. The term “typhus” is applied to any of a group of acute infections that have similar symptoms but differ in their etiology.
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Brill-Zinsser disease can develop >40 years after acute infection.
These possible cases of
Brill-Zinsser disease were likely not severely ill and recovered either with antimicrobial treatment that was effective against R.
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).
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