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 disasters...

Typhus, also known as typhus fever, is a group of infectious diseases that include epidemic typhus, scrub typhus, and murine typhus. Common symptoms include...

Diseases and epidemics of the 19th century included long-standing epidemic threats such as smallpox, typhus, yellow fever, and scarlet fever. In addition...

cheopis), usually on rats, in contrast to epidemic typhus which is usually transmitted by lice. Murine typhus is an under-recognized entity, as it is often...

The typhus epidemic of 1847 was an outbreak of epidemic typhus caused by a massive Irish emigration in 1847, during the Great Famine, aboard crowded and...

Prize in Medicine for his identification of lice as the transmitter of epidemic typhus. Nicolle was born to Aline Louvrier and Eugène Nicolle in Rouen, France...

of 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...

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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and inventor, known for creating the first effective vaccine against epidemic typhus. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine each year between...

disease is a delayed relapse of epidemic typhus, caused by Rickettsia prowazekii. After a patient contracts epidemic typhus from the fecal matter of an infected...

The scientist and writer Charles Nicolle while in Tunis studied how epidemic typhus – known for the red spots it left on sick people that disappeared before...

"Scrub typhus vaccines: past history and recent developments". Hum Vaccin. 3 (3): 73–80. doi:10.4161/hv.3.3.4009. PMID 17375000. "Epidemic Typhus". www...

the typhus group of the Rickettsia genus, along with R. prowazekii. R. typhi has an uncertain history, as it may have long gone shadowed by epidemic typhus...

toll for each disaster and lists them accordingly. It does not include epidemics and famines. The list also does not include the 1938 Yellow River flood...

vectors and can transmit pathogens that cause human diseases such as epidemic typhus, trench fever, and relapsing fever. In developed countries, infestations...

further testing should be done to determine antibiotic resistance. In epidemic situations, a clinical diagnosis may be made by taking a patient history...

Roux, V; Faugere, B; Abegbinni, R; Birtles, RJ (1998). "Outbreak of epidemic typhus associated with trench fever in Burundi". The Lancet. 352 (9125): 353–358...

prowazekii (worldwide) Epidemic typhus, recrudescent typhus, and sporadic typhus Rickettsia typhi (worldwide) Murine typhus (endemic typhus) The causative agent...

Typhus Rickettsia typhi Murine typhus Rickettsia prowazekii Epidemic typhus, Brill–Zinsser disease, Flying squirrel typhus Spotted fever...

faeces, as in the case of Chagas' Disease spread by Triatoma bugs or epidemic typhus spread by human body lice. Many invertebrates are responsible for transmitting...

in the Eastern Roman Empire in the 6th century CE, as well as the third epidemic, affecting China, Mongolia, and India, originating in the Yunnan Province...

parasitic, aerobic bacillus bacteria that is the etiologic agent of epidemic typhus, transmitted in the feces of lice. In North America, the main reservoir...

caused by Rickettsia rickettsii, named in Ricketts's honor. Ricketts died of typhus (another rickettsial disease) in Mexico in 1910, shortly after completing...

contracted "camp fever", which could have been an illness now labelled epidemic typhus, or dysentery while at Yorktown. He was moved 30 miles upriver to Eltham...

concerned that an emerging pattern of resistance may predict a global epidemic. In 2016, the WHO published new guidelines for treatment, stating "There...

Typhus Rickettsia typhi Murine typhus Rickettsia prowazekii Epidemic typhus, Brill–Zinsser disease, Flying squirrel typhus Spotted fever...

Athens. They concluded that the disease that killed the Greeks was typhus. "Epidemic typhus fever is the best explanation," said Dr. David Durack, consulting...

infection. In addition, infants are born who are susceptible to infection. An epidemic can occur once herd immunity reduces below decreases below a certain level...

In 1914 alone, louse-borne epidemic typhus killed 200,000 in Serbia. Starting in early 1918, a major influenza epidemic known as Spanish flu spread across...