Synonym for brill-zinsser disease ... Recrudescence of epidemic typhus years after the initial attack. The agent that causes epidemic typhus (Rickettsia prowazekii) remains viable for many years and then when host defenses are down, it is reactivated causing recurrent typhus. The disease is named for the physician Nathan Brill and the great bacteri...
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a recurrence (or recrudescence) of epidemic typhusin milder form, which may be years after the first attack. Called also Brill-Zinsser disease.
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Type: Term Synonyms: Brill-Zinsser disease
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