Is murine typhus re-emerging in Portugal ?

F Bacellar; I Lencastre; A R Filipe

doi:10.2807/esm.03.02.00124-en

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Is murine typhus re-emerging in Portugal ?
F Bacellar¹ , I Lencastre² , A R Filipe¹
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Affiliations: ¹ Centro de Estudos de Vectores e Doenças Infecciosas, Instituto Nacional de Saúde, Águas de Moura, Portugal ² Directorado-Regional da Saúde, Região Autonoma da Madeira, Portugal

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Citation style for this article: Bacellar F, Lencastre I, Filipe A R. Is murine typhus re-emerging in Portugal ?. Euro Surveill. 1998;3(2):pii=124. https://doi.org/10.2807/esm.03.02.00124-en

Abstract

Murine typhus or endemic typhus is an infectious disease, clinically very similar to epidemic typhus, and caused by Rickettsia typhi(sometimes referred to as R. mooseri). Murine typhus was fairly common in Portugal until the 1940s, when several cases diag