Examples of 'epidemic typhus' in a sentence

Meaning of "epidemic typhus"

Epidemic typhus is a bacterial infection caused by the bacterium Rickettsia prowazekii. It is typically transmitted to humans through the bites of infected lice. Symptoms include high fever, headache, rash, and muscle pain. Epidemic typhus can spread rapidly in overcrowded or unsanitary conditions.

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Treatment is similar to that for epidemic typhus.
Epidemic typhus is prevalent worldwide.
Only a few areas of epidemic typhus exist today.
The mode of transmission is similar to the epidemic typhus.
Epidemic typhus is a rickettsial disease.
The treatment is such as in epidemic typhus.
Epidemic typhus has historically occurred during times of war and deprivation.
Exposure to southern flying squirrels has been linked to cases of epidemic typhus in humans.
Patients with epidemic typhus may need intravenous fluids and oxygen.
It affects people years after they have completely recovered from epidemic typhus.
Epidemic typhus is.
The flying squirrel Glaucomys volans can transmit epidemic typhus.
Epidemic typhus generally occurs in outbreaks when poor sanitary conditions and crowding are present.
There were several epidemics in the course of the war, besides other epidemic typhus.
Its alternative name epidemic typhus comes from the devastation it has caused throughout history.

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He discovered Rickettsia prowazekii, the pathogen of epidemic typhus.
Epidemic typhus is caused by Rickettsia prowazekii.
Brill-Zinsser disease is milder than epidemic typhus.
Epidemic typhus is a disease caused by the bacterium Rickettsia prowazekii.
Brill-Zinsser disease is a reactivation of an earlier infection with epidemic typhus.
A plague of epidemic typhus decimated the city 's inhabitants.
Sylvatic cycle ( diseases transmitted from wild animals ) epidemic typhus remains uncommon in the US.
Epidemic typhus is caused by the bacteria Rickettsia Prowazekii ; it comes from lice.
Rocha Lima named the infectious agent of epidemic typhus - Rickettsia prowazekii - after his colleague.
For example, the human body louse transmits the bacterium Rickettsia prowazekii which causes epidemic typhus.
Epidemic typhus fever and Brill's disease.
Brill-Zinsser disease in a patient following infection with sylvatic epidemic typhus associated with flying squirrels.
Before World War II, epidemic typhus was a devastating disease for humans.
Pathologist Henrique da Rocha Lima identifies the causative agent ( Rickettsia prowazeki ) of epidemic typhus.
It 's not epidemic typhus.
In 1913 he was sent to Serbia with Carl Hegler to study epidemic typhus.
She began to work on epidemic typhus with Oleksii Krontovski [ uk ] and I. Polev.
He died of " camp fever " probably epidemic typhus.
In 1925, the Pasteur Institute financed her research with Charles Nicolle into epidemic typhus in Tunisia.

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