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01-12-2014 | Book Review
A Scientist’s Dilemma in Wartime
Published in: EcoHealth | Issue 4/2014
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Rickettsia prowazekii, the causative agent of typhus, is transmitted by body lice (Pediculus humanus humanus). Typhus, not be confused with typhoid fever, which is caused by Salmonella typhi, is an illness with a diverse and terrible clinical picture including mental signs that are so dramatic that patients would even attempt suicide, rather than endure the unbearable attacks and suffering. Typhus has become very rare today, and Arthur Allen makes a significant contribution in bringing it again to our attention in “The fantastic laboratory of Dr. Weigl” (Allen 2014).× ![]()
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