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Trench fever pathophysiology
Introduction
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Overview
Overview
Rickettsia quintana is transmitted by the by contamination of a skin abrasion or of a louse-bite wound with the faeces of an infected body louse (Pediculus humanus corporis), there has also been reports of an infected louse bite passing on the infection.[1]
References
References
- ↑ Edward Rhodes Stitt (1922). The Diagnostics and treatment of tropical diseases. P. Blakiston’s Son & Co.
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