Svetlana Velmar-Janković

Brill–Zinsser disease
Specialty	Infectious diseases

Brill–Zinsser disease is a delayed relapse of epidemic typhus, caused by Rickettsia prowazekii. After a patient contracts epidemic typhus from the fecal matter of an infected louse (Pediculus humanus), the rickettsia can remain latent and reactivate months or years later, with symptoms similar to or even identical to the original attack of typhus, including a maculopapular rash.^[1]

• Nathan Edwin Brill
• Hans Zinsser
• Tick-borne lymphadenopathy