An acute, infectious disease transmitted by lice and fleas. The epidemic or classic form is louse borne; the endemic or murine is flea borne. Also called typhus fever, malignant fever (in the 1850s), jail fever, hospital fever, ship fever, putrid fever, brain fever, bilious fever, spotted fever, petechial fever, camp fever.
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Synonym for typhus ... <disease, microbiology> An acute infectious disease characterised by high fever, a skin eruption and severe headache. In the past, typhus has been a disease of war, famine or catastrophe, being spread by lice, ticks or fleas. The infecting organism is Rickettsia prowazekii, sensitive to sulpha drugs or tetracycline. ......
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epidemic typhus.
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Disease suffered by soldiers and especially used in the American Civil War. It could mean Typhus Typhoid Malaria or Scurvy or very often a combination of two or more of these illnesses. - My thanks to National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick, Maryland for clarifying this definition see www.civilwarmed.org
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Type: Term Definitions: 1. any epidemic febrile illness affecting troops in an encampment; 2. obsolete term for typhus. Synonyms: typhus
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See typhus.
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see typhus
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