Trench Fever
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Trench Fever
By Rosalyn Carson-DeWitt MDThe Gale Group Inc., Gale.. Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 2002more »
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Rickettsia - any of a group of very small microorganisms, many disease-causing, that live in vertebrates and are transmitted by bloodsucking parasitic arthropods such as fleas, lice and ticks. Rickettsias are na...
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tren fiv noun a fever caused by Rickettsia bacteria similar to typhus but recurring every five days
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Trench fever is a disease is estimated to have affected more than a million people in Russia and on the fronts in Europe. Trench fever was again a major problem in the military in World War II and is seen endemically in Mexico, Africa, E.
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Quotidian /Fever
Is an intermittent , the paroxysms of which recur every day. [Dunglison1868] ...
Trench Fever
(Wolhynia, Shin Bone, or Quintan Fever)
Trench fever is a louse- or tick-borne disease caused by Bartonella quintana or B. henselae and observed originally in military populations during World Wars I and II.
Trench fever is a bacterial infection caused by the bacterium Bartonella quintana, which is carried and transmitted to humans by the common body louse (a small, wingless insect that lives in the clothes of infested people).
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Urban trench fever occurs among the homeless people and people with alcoholism today. Outbreaks have been documented, for example, in Seattle, Baltimore (among injection-drug users), Marseilles (France) and Burundi.
His disease (His-Werner disease, trench fever): (His-Werner disease, trench fever): This is a parasite (louse-borne) disease that was first recognized in the trenches of World War I and so was called trench fever.
Bartonellosis: Bartonella henselae (Cat scratch disease) Â- Bartonella quintana (Trench fever) Â- either henselae or quintana (Bacillary angiomatosis) Â- Bartonella bacilliformis (Carrion's disease, Verruga peruana)
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While lice can occasionally cause significant illness (typhus, relapsing fever, and trench fever), a lice infestation is generally more of an itchy and embarrassing experience than a serious medical problem.
Bartonella quintana causes trench fever, while bartonella henselae is the aetiologic agent of bacillary angiomatosis (angiomatosis, bacillary) and is also one of the causes of cat scratch disease in immunocompetent patients.
Another (secondary) skin infection may occur from scratching. In rare cases, body lice may carry uncommon diseases, such as relapsing or trench fever. Because body lice is contagious, other family members may want to be treated.
Certain lice, such as body lice, can transmit diseases, such as typhus, relapsing fever, and trench fever, but most of the time having lice is more embarrassing and itchy than it is concerning as a disease.
that ticks may be responsible for other diseases not previously thought to be carried by these vectors. For example, the Bartonella family of bacteria causes cat-scratch fever (which is transmitted from cat to cat by fleas) and trench fever ...
Fever, relapsing Fever, remittent Fever, rheumatic Fever, Rift Valley Fever, Rocky Mountain spotted (RMSF) Fever, scarlet Fever, shin bone Fever, Southeast Asian hemorrhagic Fever, splenic Fever, spotted Fever, Thai hemorrhagic Fever, trench Fever, ...
 See also: Fever, Symptom, Rickettsia, Typhus, Rash
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