An infectious disease clinically similar to epidemic louse-borne typhus (TYPHUS, EPIDEMIC LOUSE-BORNE), but caused by RICKETTSIA TYPHI, which is transmitted from rat to man by the rat flea, XENOPSYLLA CHEOPIS.
    

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Typhus, typhoid and paratyphoid in Palestine / by Alfred Klopstock.

A practical treatise on the typhus or adynamic fever / By John Burne.

Ueber den Hungertyphus und einige verwandte Krankheitsformen : Vortrag gehalten am 9 Februar 1868 zum Besten der Typhuskranken in Ostpreussen / von Rudolf Virchow.

Hermann Mooser, 1891-1971, der Entdecker des murinen Fleckfiebers / von Rainer Beat Marti.

Estudos sobre o tifo murino na Guiné Portuguesa / João Tendeiro.

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Typhus, typhoid and paratyphoid in Palestine / by Alfred Klopstock.

A practical treatise on the typhus or adynamic fever / By John Burne.

Ueber den Hungertyphus und einige verwandte Krankheitsformen : Vortrag gehalten am 9 Februar 1868 zum Besten der Typhuskranken in Ostpreussen / von Rudolf Virchow.

Hermann Mooser, 1891-1971, der Entdecker des murinen Fleckfiebers / von Rainer Beat Marti.

Estudos sobre o tifo murino na Guiné Portuguesa / João Tendeiro.