Brill's disease
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Brill's disease
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Brill's disease
A mild relapse of epidemic, louse-borne TYPHUS occurring many years after the initial attack. The organism Rickettsia prowazekii can be isolated from the blood. (Nathan Edwin Brill, 1860–1925, American physician).Collins Dictionary of Medicine © Robert M. Youngson 2004, 2005
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