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Infections > Vector Borne Diseases > Rickettsiaceae Infections > Rickettsia Infections > Typhus, Epidemic Louse-Borne
... > Infections > Bacterial Infections and Mycoses > Bacterial Infections > Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections > Rickettsiaceae Infections > Rickettsia Infections > Typhus, Epidemic Louse-Borne

Preferred term

Typhus, Epidemic Louse-Borne  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Epidemic Typhus
  • Fever, Jail
  • Infection, Rickettsia prowazekii
  • Jail Fever
  • Louse Borne Typhus
  • Louse-Borne Typhus
  • Rickettsia prowazekii Infection
  • Rickettsia prowazekii Infections
  • Typhus, Epidemic
  • Typhus, Louse-Borne

Scope note

  • The classic form of typhus, caused by RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII, which is transmitted from man to man by the louse Pediculus humanus corporis. This disease is characterized by the sudden onset of intense headache, malaise, and generalized myalgia followed by the formation of a macular skin eruption and vascular and neurologic disturbances.

History note

  • 77; was TYPHUS 1963-76; BRILL'S DISEASE was heading 1975-96 (see under TYPHUS, EPIDEMIC LOUSE-BORNE 1977-90, see under TYPHUS 1975-76), was see under TYPHUS 1963-74; BRILL-ZINSSER DISEASE was see BRILL'S DISEASE 1992-96

In other languages

  • epideeminen pilkkukuume

    Finnish

  • epidemisk fläcktyfus (överförd av löss)
  • epidemisk fläcktyfus orsakad av Rickettsia prowazekeii
  • febris exanthematica pedicularis classica
  • febris exanthematica pedicularis epidemica
  • klassinen pilkkukuume
  • täipilkkukuume
  • Tyfus, epidemisk lusburen

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D014438

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