Louse-borne Typhus Fever

Louse-borne relapsing fever in man.

Human serological response to louse-borne relapsing fever.

Serological response to louse-borne relapsing fever in Ethiopia was determined by immobilization tests using Borrelia recurrentis cultures. Isolates from 26 patients tested with autologous convalescent sera showed from 90 to 100% of the organisms had been immobilized. Sera from thirteen patients were tested with autologous and heterologous strains. Several reacted with the majority and two show...

Wuse . Borne Typhus Fever in the European Thea -

EPIDEMIC louse-borne typhus fever has always developed its greatest potentialities under conditions of war and famine. Medical intelligence summaries of the Office of the Chief Surgeon, European Theater of Operations, U. S. Army, medical notes of the health division of United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, and the weekly epidemiological records of the Health Section of the Se...

The Experimental Infection of the Human Body Louse, Pediculus Humanus Corporis, with Murine and Epidemic Louse-borne Typhus Strains

Experiments are described which demonstrate that human body lice (Pediculus humanus corporis), were infected experimentally with murine and epidemic louse-borne strains of typhus fever by feeding on suitably prepared rabbits. Details of the two methods of infection, the "bleb technique" and the "I.V. technique," are presented. It is concluded that the experimental infection of human lice with t...

Cardiorespiratory disturbances associated with infective fever in man: studies of Ethiopian louse-borne relapsing fever.