Brill-Zinsser disease


Brill-Zinsser disease

 [bril´ zin´ser] recrudescent typhus.

Brill-Zins·ser dis·ease

(bril zinz'sĕr), an endogenous reinfection associated with the "carrier state" in patients who previously had epidemic typhus fever; it is a rather mild disease and may be mistaken for endemic (murine) typhus; first described by Brill in New York City but not recognized as a recrudescent form of epidemic typhus until after the work of Zinsser. Synonym(s): Brill disease, recrudescent typhus fever, recrudescent typhus

Brill-Zinsser disease

A relapse of epidemic typhus caused by dormant Rickettsia prowazekii, which is reactivated due to intercurrent disease.

Brill-Zins·ser dis·ease

(bril-zin'sĕr di-zēz') An endogenous reinfection in people who previously had epidemic typhus fever; it is mild and may be mistaken for endemic (murine) typhus.
Synonym(s): Brill disease, recrudescent typhus.

Brill,

Nathan Edwin, U.S. physician, 1860-1925. Brill disease - Synonym(s): Brill-Zinsser diseaseBrill-Symmers disease - obsolete term for nodular lymphoma.Brill-Zinsser disease - an endogenous reinfection associated with the "carrier state" in persons who previously had epidemic typhus fever. Synonym(s): Brill disease; recrudescent typhus fever; recrudescent typhus

Zinsser,

Hans, U.S. bacteriologist and immunologist, 1878-1940. Brill-Zinsser disease - see under Brill