Medical Definition of Camp fever
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An acute infectious disease characterised by high fever, a skin eruption and severe headache. In the past, typhus has been a disease of war, famine or catastrophe, being spread by lice, ticks or fleas. The infecting organism is Rickettsia prowazekii, sensitive to sulpha drugs or tetracycline.
(27 Sep 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Camp Fever
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