recrudescent typhus

Brill-Zins·ser dis·ease

(bril zinz'sĕr),

an endogenous reinfection associated with the "carrier state" in patients who previously had epidemic typhus fever; it is a rather mild disease and may be mistaken for endemic (murine) typhus; first described by Brill in New York City but not recognized as a recrudescent form of epidemic typhus until after the work of Zinsser.

Synonym(s): Brill disease, recrudescent typhus fever, recrudescent typhus

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Brill-Zins·ser dis·ease

(bril-zin'sĕr di-zēz')

An endogenous reinfection in people who previously had epidemic typhus fever; it is mild and may be mistaken for endemic (murine) typhus.
Synonym(s): Brill disease, recrudescent typhus.

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Brill,

Nathan Edwin, U.S. physician, 1860-1925.

Brill disease - Synonym(s): Brill-Zinsser disease

Brill-Symmers disease - obsolete term for nodular lymphoma.

Brill-Zinsser disease - an endogenous reinfection associated with the "carrier state" in persons who previously had epidemic typhus fever. Synonym(s): Brill disease; recrudescent typhus fever; recrudescent typhus

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