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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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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Typhoid fever (redirect from Typhus abdominalis)
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...
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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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Look up 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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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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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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Rickettsia (section Typhus group)
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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Rocky Mountain spotted fever (redirect from Tick- borne typhus fever)
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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Boutonneuse fever (redirect from Kenya tick typhus)
called Mediterranean spotted fever, fièvre boutonneuse, Kenya tick typhus, Indian tick typhus, Marseilles fever, or Astrakhan fever) is a fever as a result...
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Bolivian hemorrhagic fever (redirect from Black Typhus)
Bolivian hemorrhagic fever (BHF), also known as black typhus or Ordog Fever, is a hemorrhagic fever and zoonotic infectious disease originating in Bolivia...
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Typhon (redirect from Typhus (monster))
Typhon (/ˈtaɪfɒn, -fən/; Ancient Greek: Τυφῶν, romanized: Typhôn, [tyːpʰɔ̂ːn]), also Typhoeus (/taɪˈfiːəs/; Τυφωεύς, Typhōeús), Typhaon (Τυφάων, Typháōn)...
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living conditions led to disease and infection, such as trench foot, lice, typhus, trench fever, and the 'Spanish flu'. At the start of the war, German cruisers...
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obligate intracellular, rod shaped gram negative bacterium. It belongs to the typhus group of the Rickettsia genus, along with R. prowazekii. R. typhi has an...
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Typhus Rickettsia typhi Murine typhus Rickettsia prowazekii Epidemic typhus, Brill–Zinsser disease, Flying squirrel typhus Spotted fever...
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the early stages of the First World War, Serbia suffered an epidemic of typhus and relapsing fever. The epidemic first appeared in the late autumn of 1914...
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Typhus Rickettsia typhi Murine typhus Rickettsia prowazekii Epidemic typhus, Brill–Zinsser disease, Flying squirrel typhus Spotted fever...
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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...
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Western Hemisphere populations were ravaged mostly by smallpox, but also typhus, measles, influenza, bubonic plague, cholera, malaria, tuberculosis, mumps...
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Medicine for his identification of lice as the transmitter of epidemic typhus. Nicolle was born to Aline Louvrier and Eugène Nicolle in Rouen, France...
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Typhus Rickettsia typhi Murine typhus Rickettsia prowazekii Epidemic typhus, Brill–Zinsser disease, Flying squirrel typhus Spotted fever...
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Typhus Rickettsia typhi Murine typhus Rickettsia prowazekii Epidemic typhus, Brill–Zinsser disease, Flying squirrel typhus Spotted fever...
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Typhus Rickettsia typhi Murine typhus Rickettsia prowazekii Epidemic typhus, Brill–Zinsser disease, Flying squirrel typhus Spotted fever...
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subcamps, primarily from disease, malnutrition and suicide. In late 1944, a typhus epidemic occurred in the camp caused by poor sanitation and overcrowding...
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Typhus Rickettsia typhi Murine typhus Rickettsia prowazekii Epidemic typhus, Brill–Zinsser disease, Flying squirrel typhus Spotted fever...
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group (SPG) and typhus group (TG). In the past, rickettsioses were considered to be caused by species of Rickettsia. However, scrub typhus is still considered...
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inventor, known for creating the first effective vaccine against epidemic typhus. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine each year between 1930...
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plague (1813) Groningen epidemic (1829) Great Plains smallpox (1837–1838) Typhus (1847–1848) Copenhagen cholera (1853) Stockholm cholera (1853) Broad Street...
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Queensland tick typhus is a zoonotic disease caused by the bacterium Rickettsia australis. It is transmitted by the ticks Ixodes holocyclus and Ixodes...
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Diseases and epidemics of the 19th century (category Epidemic typhus)
19th century included long-standing epidemic threats such as smallpox, typhus, yellow fever, and scarlet fever. In addition, cholera emerged as an epidemic...
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