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Brill-Zinsser disease — Recrudescence of epidemic typhus years after the initial attack. The agent that causes epidemic typhus (Rickettsia prowazekii) remains viable for many years and then when host defenses are down, it is reactivated causing recurrent typhus. The… … Medical dictionary
Brill-Zinsser disease — noun A delayed relapse of epidemic typhus, occurring some time after the original infection … Wiktionary
Brill's disease — ☆ Brill s disease [bril′zin′sərbrilz ] n. [after N. E. Brill (1860 1925), U.S. physician] a form of epidemic typhus fever in which the disease recurs years after the original infection: also called Brill Zinsser disease [bril′zin′sər] … English World dictionary
Brill disease — Brill Zinsser d … Medical dictionary
Disease — Illness or sickness often characterized by typical patient problems (symptoms) and physical findings (signs). Disruption sequence: The events that occur when a fetus that is developing normally is subjected to a destructive agent such as the… … Medical dictionary
Zinsser disease — Also called Brill Zinsser disease, recrudescence of epidemic typhus years after the initial attack. The agent that causes epidemic typhus (Rickettsia prowazekii) remains viable for many years and then when host defenses are down, it is… … Medical dictionary
Brill (disambiguation) — Placename: * Brill, Buckinghamshire, England is a village known for a nearby palace built by King Edward the Confessor. * Brill is a small village to the west of Constantine in the Cornish District of Kerrier, UK. * Brielle, The Netherlands… … Wikipedia
Brill disease — (bril) [Nathan Edwin Brill, American physician, 1860–1925] Brill Zinsser disease … Medical dictionary
Zinsser, Hans — born Nov. 17, 1878, New York, N.Y., U.S. died 1940 U.S. bacteriologist and epidemiologist. He taught principally at the Columbia (1913–23) and Harvard (1923–40) medical schools. He isolated the bacterium that causes the European type of typhus,… … Universalium
Brill — Nathan E., U.S. physician, 1860–1925. See B. disease, B. Zinsser disease … Medical dictionary
