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Brill-Zinsser disease (recrudescent typhus)

Etiology: - endogenous reinfection with Rickettsia prowazekii associated with a carrier state in persons previously with epidemic typhus (recrudescent typhus) Clinical manifestations: - may occur 30-50 years after the original infection Notes: - 1st described by Brill in New York City, but not recognized as a recrudescent form of epidemic typhus until the work of Zinsser

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Rickettsia prowazekii

General

epidemic typhus

References

  1. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 14th ed. Fauci et al (eds), McGraw-Hill Inc. NY, 1998, pg 91
  2. Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999