Endemic flea-borne typhus

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Endemic flea-borne typhus [r]: An infectious disease clinically similar to louse-borne epidemic typhus, but caused by Rickettsia typhi, which is transmitted from rat to man by the rat flea, Xenopsylla cheopis [e]

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