dictionary help| recrudescent typhus fever --> Brill-Zinsser disease | medical dictionary |
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 after the physician Nathan Brill and the great bacteriologist Hans Zinsser.
(12 Dec 1998)
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