title: Brill-Zinsser disease: report of a case in Canada.
abstract: This report documents the occurrence of Brill-Zinsser disease in a 48-year-old woman who experienced typhus fever in a German concentration camp. This is the first report of a case of recrudescent typhus in a European immigrating to Canada following World War II. The last reported case of Brill-Zinsser disease in Canada occurred in 1953.
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007585:Jews; D008875:Middle Aged; D012008:Recurrence; D012480:Salmonella Infections / Q000453:epidemiology; D013577:Syndrome; D013752:Tetracycline / Q000627:therapeutic use; D014438:Typhus, Epidemic Louse-Borne / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology*
chemical_list: D013752:Tetracycline