The history of epidemic typhus
| Autor: | J. Stephen Dumler, Didier Raoult, Theodore E. Woodward |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Microbiology (medical)
Epidemic typhus animal structures Endemic Diseases media_common.quotation_subject Disease Outbreaks History 17th Century 03 medical and health sciences Development economics medicine Humans History Ancient History 15th Century 030304 developmental biology media_common 0303 health sciences Civilization biology 030306 microbiology business.industry Outbreak Historical Article History 19th Century History 20th Century bacterial infections and mycoses biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Crowding Virology History Medieval 3. Good health Rickettsia prowazekii Infectious Diseases History 16th Century Famine business Typhus Epidemic Louse-Borne Typhus |
| Zdroj: | Paleomicrobiology of Humans |
| ISSN: | 0891-5520 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0891-5520(03)00093-x |
| Popis: | Few infectious diseases have influenced human civilization to the same degree as louse-transmitted typhus. Rickettsia prowazekii continues to strikes tens to hundreds of thousands of persons who live with war, famine, crowding, and in squalid conditions associated with social unrest, with mortality rates in excess of 10% to 15%. Historical documents confirm that such devastation has been a continuous feature of human existence to the extent that typhus has been a major determinant in the outcome of many wars, altering human history in its wake-despite incomplete knowledge of its precise origin. In the twenty-first century, circumstances are still conductive for outbreak; the emerging threat of bioterrorism raises justifiable concerns that typhus could affect civilization just as greatly in the future as it has in the past. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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