- PART 1 Introduction
- PART 2 Bacterial, chlamydial, and rickettsial zoonoses
- Chapter 6 Anthrax
- Chapter 7 Brucellosis
- Chapter 8 Verocytotoxin-producing <i>Escherichia coli</i> (VTEC) infections
- Chapter 9 Lyme borreliosis
- Chapter 10 Tick-borne rickettsial diseases
- Chapter 11 Flea-borne rickettsial diseases
- Chapter 12 Epidemic and murine typhus
- Chapter 13 Scrub typhus
- Chapter 14 Listeriosis
- Chapter 15 Mycobacterioses
- Chapter 16 Campylobacteriosis
- Chapter 17 Chlamydiosis
- Chapter 18 Q fever
- Chapter 19a Other bacterial diseasesDiseases caused by corynebacteria and related organisms
- Chapter 19b Other bacterial diseasesAnaplasmosis, ehrlichiosis and neorickettsiosis
- Chapter 19c Other bacterial diseasesPasteurellosis
- Chapter 19d Other bacterial diseasesRat-bite fevers
- Chapter 19e Other bacterial diseasesStreptococcosis
- Chapter 19f Other bacterial diseasesCat-scratch disease
- Chapter 19g Other bacterial diseasesErysipeloid
- Chapter 19h Other bacterial diseasesStaphylococcal zoonoses
- Chapter 20 Leptospirosis
- Chapter 21 Yersiniosis and plague
- Chapter 22 Glanders
- Chapter 23 Salmonellosis
- Chapter 24 Tularaemia
- PART 3 Viral zoonoses
- PART 4 Parasitic zoonoses
(p. 106) Epidemic and murine typhus
- Chapter:
- (p. 106) Epidemic and murine typhus
- Author(s):
Emmanouil Angelakis
and Didier Raoult
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med/9780198570028.003.0012
Epidemic typhus is now a rare disease, but previously it was worldwide in distribution. Typically epidemic typhus occurred during instances in which humans were forced to live in crowded, cold and unhygienic conditions (eg aboard ships, in jails, and during military operations). Until recently man was considered to be the only reservoir for R.prowazekii, but in 1975 a new sylvatic cycle involving the flying squirrel and its ectoparasites was discovered in the eastern United States.
Murine typhys occurs throughout the world. Its epidemiology is primarily linked to the distribution of rats and the rat flea, Xenopsylla cheopis. However, recently both a new reservoir (opossums in southern California) and a new potential vector (the cat flea) have been discovered.
Control or avoidance of the vectors are the cornerstones of strategies to prevent morbidity and mortality.
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- PART 1 Introduction
- PART 2 Bacterial, chlamydial, and rickettsial zoonoses
- Chapter 6 Anthrax
- Chapter 7 Brucellosis
- Chapter 8 Verocytotoxin-producing <i>Escherichia coli</i> (VTEC) infections
- Chapter 9 Lyme borreliosis
- Chapter 10 Tick-borne rickettsial diseases
- Chapter 11 Flea-borne rickettsial diseases
- Chapter 12 Epidemic and murine typhus
- Chapter 13 Scrub typhus
- Chapter 14 Listeriosis
- Chapter 15 Mycobacterioses
- Chapter 16 Campylobacteriosis
- Chapter 17 Chlamydiosis
- Chapter 18 Q fever
- Chapter 19a Other bacterial diseasesDiseases caused by corynebacteria and related organisms
- Chapter 19b Other bacterial diseasesAnaplasmosis, ehrlichiosis and neorickettsiosis
- Chapter 19c Other bacterial diseasesPasteurellosis
- Chapter 19d Other bacterial diseasesRat-bite fevers
- Chapter 19e Other bacterial diseasesStreptococcosis
- Chapter 19f Other bacterial diseasesCat-scratch disease
- Chapter 19g Other bacterial diseasesErysipeloid
- Chapter 19h Other bacterial diseasesStaphylococcal zoonoses
- Chapter 20 Leptospirosis
- Chapter 21 Yersiniosis and plague
- Chapter 22 Glanders
- Chapter 23 Salmonellosis
- Chapter 24 Tularaemia
- PART 3 Viral zoonoses
- PART 4 Parasitic zoonoses