Rickettsia pneumonia typhus

There are two types of typhus: endemic typhus and endemic typhus. The former is transmitted by human lice through Plasmodium rickettsii and is accompanied by bronchial pneumonia, second only to Q fever pneumonia; the latter is also called murine typhus, which is transmitted by rat mosquito The clinical characteristics of transmitted acute infectious diseases are similar to those of epidemic typhus, but the disease is milder, with more common bronchitis and fewer patients with pneumonia.

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