(medicine) Any of three louse-borne human diseases caused by Rickettsia prowazakii characterized by fever, stupor, headaches, and a dark-red rash.
typhus fever
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 | typhomania |
| roseola typhosa (medicine) |
| Zinsser, Hans (American bacteriologist and pioneer immunologist) |
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