An acute infection characterized by recurrent episodes of PYREXIA alternating with asymptomatic intervals of apparent recovery. This condition is caused by SPIROCHETES of the genus BORRELIA. It is transmitted by the BITES of either the body louse (PEDICULUS humanus corporis), for which humans are the reservoir, or by soft ticks of the genus ORNITHODOROS, for which rodents and other animals are the principal reservoirs.
    

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Typhus prevention: (Indian?) soldiers having their kit disinfected in order to prevent typhus and relapsing fever. Photograph, 1914/1918.

Spirillum fever : synonyms : famine or relapsing fever as seen in western India / by H. Vandyke Carter.

The pathology of relapsing fever / by L.J. Pisani.

Die Hungerpest in Oberschlesien : Beleuchtung oberschlesischer und preussischer Zustände.

Observations on relapsing fever, as it occurred in Philadelphia in the winter of 1869 and 1870 / John S. Parry.

Notes on the recent epidemic in St. Petersburg / by John Millar.

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Spirillum fever : synonyms : famine or relapsing fever as seen in western India / by H. Vandyke Carter.

The pathology of relapsing fever / by L.J. Pisani.

Die Hungerpest in Oberschlesien : Beleuchtung oberschlesischer und preussischer Zustände.

Observations on relapsing fever, as it occurred in Philadelphia in the winter of 1869 and 1870 / John S. Parry.

Notes on the recent epidemic in St. Petersburg / by John Millar.