This report documents the occurrence of Brill-Zinsser disease in a 48-year-old woman who
experienced typhus fever in a German concentration camp. This is the first report of a case of …

Discussion This patient's symptoms and signs-high fever, intense and unrelenting
headache, a transient macular rash on the trunk during the height of the illness and prompt …

1. Of 318 Polish refugees now living in this country 30% gave a history of typhus fever;
nearly half of these had complement-fixing antibodies to a titre of 1–5 or more to epidemic …

The first case recorded in Australia is described. The patient was a Polish immigrant who
had been interned during the War in an unhygienic camp in Russia where lice were …

THE name Brill's disease is usually given to the isolated cases of typhus fever that occur in
the coastal towns of the northeastern United States. 1 In 1934 Zinsser2 showed that these …

BRILL'S disease should be considered as a cause of fever of undetermined origin in a
general hospital that draws patients from the foreign-born population. Typhus fever, a …

Brill's disease has been shown to be recrudescent epidemic typhus fever. The strains of
rickettsiae isolated from cases have the charateristics of epidemic typhus rickettsiae and …

An 82-year-old Polish immigrant was admitted to a medical centre in the USA with fever and
headache. The patient experienced 1 day of nausea and back pain before the abrupt onset …

Typhus fever has not appeared in epidemic form in the United States since the
comparatively small outbreaks in New York in 1891-92 and in Philadelphia in 1883 …

Yugoslavia*t Page 1 Vol. 41 Brill's Disease. IV. Study of 26 Cases in Yugoslavia*t EDWARD
S. MURRAY, MD, TADIJA PSORN, MD, PREDRAG DJAKOVIC, MD,STANKO SIELSKI, MD …