Brill-Zinsser Disease in Moroccan Man, France, 2011 [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2012 To the Editor: Epidemic typhus is caused by Rickettsia prowazekii and transmitted by human body lice. For centuries, it has been associated with overcrowding, cold weather, and poor hygiene. Brill-Zinsser disease is a recurrent form of epidemic typhus that is unrelated to louse infestation and develops sporadically years after the primary illness ...
Jean-François Faucher +6 more
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Failure of azithromycin in treatment of Brill-Zinsser disease. [PDF]
Antimicrob Agents Chemother, 2000 ABSTRACT Two patients suffering from Brill-Zinsser disease were treated with azithromycin, which did not prove effective. Rickettsia prowazekii , the agent causing Brill-Zinsser disease, cannot be treated with azithromycin.
Turcinov D, Kuzman I, Herendić B.
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AVIDITY OF IGG TO RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII AS AN ADDITIONAL CRITERION FOR THE SEROLOGICAL DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF THE EPIDEMIC TYPH AND ITS RECRUDESCENT FORM - BRILL-ZINSSER DISEASE [PDF]
Журнал микробиологии, эпидемиологии и иммунобиологии, 2018 Aim: to investigate the diagnostic significance of avidity index (AI) for IgG toR. prowazekii with the determination of specific G and M class antibodies. Materials and methods. IgG/IgM to R.
T. A. Chekanova +2 more
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Brill-Zinsser disease; the possibility of its occurrence in Britain. [PDF]
J Hyg (Lond), 1958 1. Of 318 Polish refugees now living in this country 30% gave a history of typhus fever; nearly half of these had complement-fixing antibodies to a titre of 1–5 or more to epidemic typhus. A further 12% without such a history similarly had these antibodies making a total of 22% of 318 refugees. None of the 174 British born controls had antibodies up to
LAWY HS, BEATTIE CP, BENSTED HJ.
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Brill-Zinsser disease: report of a case in Canada. [PDF]
Can Med Assoc J, 1974 This report documents the occurrence of Brill-Zinsser disease in a 48-year-old woman who experienced typhus fever in a German concentration camp. This is the first report of a case of recrudescent typhus in a European immigrating to Canada following World War II. The last reported case of Brill-Zinsser disease in Canada occurred in 1953.
Portnoy J, Mendelson J, Clecner B.
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Adipose tissue serves as a reservoir for recrudescent Rickettsia prowazekii infection in a mouse model. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 Brill-Zinsser disease, the relapsing form of epidemic typhus, typically occurs in a susceptible host years or decades after the primary infection; however, the mechanisms of reactivation and the cellular reservoir during latency are poorly understood ...
Yassina Bechah +4 more
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Drought and epidemic typhus, central Mexico, 1655-1918. [PDF]
Emerg Infect Dis, 2014 Burns JN, Acuna-Soto R, Stahle DW.
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Eradication of Typhus Exanthematicus in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Biomolecules & Biomedicine, 2006 Typhus exanthematicus in Bosnia and Herzegovina held in endemic areas from which especially quickly began spread after 1945. That year, in 1945, one hundred epidemics of typhus fever appeared, with the highest incidence rate in Europe of 215.04 per 1 ...
Zlatko Puvačić +5 more
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Identifying Novel Inhibitors of RpFabG in Typhus-inducing Rickettsia prowazekii [PDF]
, 2019 Epidemic typhus is a rickettsial disease that is contracted via ticks and lice found on the flying squirrel. The disease is caused by Rickettsia prowazekii, an intracellular, gram-negative coccobacillus.
Panatpur, Aparna
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Inactivation of SAM-methyltransferase is the mechanism of attenuation of a historic louse borne typhus vaccine strain [PDF]
, 2014 Louse borne typhus (also called epidemic typhus) was one of man's major scourges, and epidemics of the disease can be reignited when social, economic, or political systems are disrupted.
AV Rodionov +17 more
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