epidemic typhus

n.

A form of typhus characterized by high fever, mental and physical depression, and macular and papular eruptions; it is caused by Rickettsia prowazekii and transmitted by body lice.

Words nearby epidemic typhus

epidemic parotitis virus, epidemic pleurodynia, epidemic pleurodynia virus, epidemic polyarthritis, epidemic roseola, epidemic typhus, epidemicity, epidemiology, epidendrum, epidermal cyst, epidermal ridge