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Disease Overview

A group of infectious diseases that include epidemic typhus, scrub typhus and murine typhus.

Synonyms

  • European typhus
  • Mexican typhus
  • Moscow typhus
  • Urban typhus
  • classical typhus
  • classical typhus (fever)
  • endemic flea-borne typhus
  • endemic typhus fever
  • epidemic (louse-borne) typhus
  • epidemic louse-borne typhus
  • epidemic louse-borne typhus fever due to Rickettsia prowazekii
  • exanthematic typhus fever
  • exanthematous typhus
  • famine fever
  • flea typhus
  • flea-borne rickettsiosis
  • flea-borne typhus
  • gaol fever
  • hospital fever
  • jail fever
  • louse-borne [epidemic] typhus
  • louse-borne rickettsiosis
  • louse-borne typhus
  • murine [endemic] typhus
  • murine typhus
  • petechial fever
  • prison fever
  • rat flea typhus
  • ship fever
  • shop typhus
  • typhus exanthematique
  • typhus fever
  • typhus-group rickettsiae disease
  • typhus-group rickettsiosisEuropean typhus
  • Mexican typhus
  • Moscow typhus
  • Urban typhus
  • classical typhus
  • classical typhus (fever)
  • endemic flea-borne typhus
  • endemic typhus fever
  • epidemic (louse-borne) typhus
  • epidemic louse-borne typhus
  • epidemic louse-borne typhus fever due to Rickettsia prowazekii
  • exanthematic typhus fever
  • exanthematous typhus
  • famine fever
  • flea typhus
  • flea-borne rickettsiosis
  • flea-borne typhus
  • gaol fever
  • hospital fever
  • jail fever
  • louse-borne [epidemic] typhus
  • louse-borne rickettsiosis
  • louse-borne typhus
  • murine [endemic] typhus
  • murine typhus
  • petechial fever
  • prison fever
  • rat flea typhus
  • ship fever
  • shop typhus
  • typhus exanthematique
  • typhus fever
  • typhus-group rickettsiae disease
  • typhus-group rickettsiosis
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The Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center (GARD) has information and resources for patients, caregivers, and families that may be helpful before and after diagnosis of this condition. GARD is a program of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

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