Brill disease

Brill disease
(bril) [Nathan Edwin Brill, American physician, 1860–1925] Brill-Zinsser disease.

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  • Disease, Brill-Zinsser — Recrudescence of epidemic typhus years after the initial attack. The agent that causes epidemic typhus (Rickettsia prowazekii) remains viable for many years and then when host defenses are down, it is reactivated causing recurrent typhus. The… …   Medical dictionary

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