Typhus Rickettsial Infectious Diseases

Typhus

Any of several forms of infectious disease caused by Rickettsia species, transmitted by bites of fleas, lice, or mites. Characterized by severe headache, sustained high fever, depression, delirium, and the eruption of red rashes on the skin.

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• - FAQ from the Texas Department of Health.
  
• - Factsheet on the four main types of typus.
  
• - Brief information about louse-borne typhus.
  
• - Brief information from the U.S. Centers for Disease Conrtol and Prevention.
  
• - Information about all three types - epidemic louse-borne, scrub, and endemic (murine) typhus.
  
• - Information about the only rickettsial disease that causes explosive epidemics in humans. The fever, caused by Rickettsia prowazekii, is transmitted by the human body louse (Pediculus humanus corporis).
  
• - FAQ from the Virginia Department of Health.
  
• - Detailed information about this acute, febrile, infectious illness caused by Rickettsia tsutsugamushi and transmitted by trombiculid mites.
  
  

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