Typhus, also known as typhus fever, is a group of infectious diseases that include epidemic typhus, scrub typhus, and murine typhus. Common symptoms include...

of death may be as high as 20%. With treatment, it is between 1% and 4%. Typhus is a different disease, caused by unrelated species of bacteria. Owing to...

Epidemic typhus, also known as louse-borne typhus, is a form of typhus so named because the disease often causes epidemics following wars and natural...

Scrub typhus or bush typhus is a form of typhus caused by the intracellular parasite Orientia tsutsugamushi, a Gram-negative α-proteobacterium of family...

Look up typhus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In modern medical English, the term typhus refers to a group of rickettsioses only. Typhus may also...

Murine typhus, also known as endemic typhus or flea-borne typhus, is a form of typhus transmitted by fleas (Xenopsylla cheopis), usually on rats, in contrast...

Epidemic typhus, recrudescent typhus, and sporadic typhus Rickettsia typhi (worldwide) Murine typhus (endemic typhus) The causative agent of scrub typhus formerly...

Typhus vaccines are vaccines developed to protect against typhus. As of 2020 they are not commercially available. One typhus vaccine consisted of...

caused by Rickettsia rickettsii, named in Ricketts's honor. Ricketts died of typhus (another rickettsial disease) in Mexico in 1910, shortly after completing...

called Mediterranean spotted fever, fièvre boutonneuse, Kenya tick typhus, Indian tick typhus, Marseilles fever, or Astrakhan fever) is a fever as a result...