epidemic typhus
Sign in to saveAlso known as epidemic louse-borne typhus, louse-borne typhus, jail fever, hospital fever, ship fever, famine fever, putrid fever, camp fever
human disease
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- disease
- Image
- Epidemic typhus Burundi.jpg
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- possible treatment
- tranquilizer
- drug or therapy used for treatment
- doxycycline
- described by source
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia
- topic's main category
- Category:Epidemic typhus
- health specialty
- infectious diseases
- ICPC 2 ID
- A78
- has cause
- Rickettsia prowazekii
- exact match
- identifiers.org/doid/DOID:0050480
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Medicine
- has natural reservoir
- human
- minimal incubation period in humans
- 6
- maximal incubation period in humans
- 25
- anatomical location
- central nervous system
- medical examination
- ELISA
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