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Typhus: A class of vector-borne diseases caused by Rickettsiae, usually presenting as acute febrile infections [e]

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  • Vector-borne diseases [r]: Infectious diseases that do not transmit directly between their ultimate victims, but require an intermediate living carrier, such as mosquitoes in malaria or fleas in plague [e]
  • Rickettsiae [r]: A tribe of gram-negative bacteria of the family rickettsiaceae, whose organisms are found in arthropods and are pathogenic for man and certain other vertebrate hosts [1] [e]

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  1. This definition is at least in part based on: Anonymous (2024), Typhus (English). Medical Subject Headings. U.S. National Library of Medicine.