Brill‐Zinsser Disease in a Patient Following Infection with Sylvatic Epidemic Typhus Associated with Flying Squirrels
Author(s) -
Jennifer H. McQuiston,
E Knights,
Peter J. DeMartino,
Scott F. Paparello,
William L. Nicholson,
Joseph Singleton,
Catherine Brown,
Robert F. Massung,
Joseph C. Urbanowski
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1086/655891
Subject(s) - medicine , virology , disease , brill , rickettsia prowazekii , zoonotic disease , pathology , biology , virus , rickettsia , fishery
Recrudescent Rickettsia prowazekii infection, also known as Brill-Zinsser disease, can manifest decades after untreated primary infection but is rare in contemporary settings. We report the first known case of Brill-Zinsser disease in a patient originally infected with a zoonotic strain of R. prowazekii acquired from flying squirrels.
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