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Typhus, also
known as
typhus fever, is a
group of
infectious diseases that
include epidemic typhus,
scrub typhus, and
murine typhus.
Common symptoms include...
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Murine typhus, also
known as
endemic typhus or flea-borne
typhus, is a form of
typhus transmitted by
fleas (Xenopsylla cheopis),
usually on rats, in contrast...
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Epidemic typhus, also
known as louse-borne
typhus, is a form of
typhus so
named because the
disease often causes epidemics following wars and natural...
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typhus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In
modern medical English, the term
typhus refers to a
group of
rickettsioses only.
Typhus may also...
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death may be as high as 20%. With treatment, it is
between 1% and 4%.
Typhus is a
different disease,
caused by
unrelated species of bacteria.
Owing to...
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Scrub typhus or bush
typhus is a form of
typhus caused by the
intracellular parasite Orientia tsutsugamushi, a Gram-negative α-proteobacterium of family...
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Epidemic typhus,
recrudescent typhus, and
sporadic typhus Rickettsia typhi (worldwide)
Murine typhus (endemic
typhus) The
causative agent of
scrub typhus formerly...
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Typhus vaccines are
vaccines developed to
protect against typhus. As of 2020 they are not
commercially available. One
typhus vaccine consisted of...
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caused by
Rickettsia rickettsii,
named in Ricketts's honor.
Ricketts died of
typhus (another
rickettsial disease) in
Mexico in 1910,
shortly after completing...
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called Mediterranean spotted fever, fièvre boutonneuse,
Kenya tick
typhus,
Indian tick
typhus, M****illes fever, or
Astrakhan fever) is a
fever as a result...
