different between typhus vs rickettsiosis

English

Etymology

From New Latin typhus, from Ancient Greek ????? (tûphos, “fever, stupor”), from ???? (túph?, “to smoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *dhubh-, extended form of *dheu- (“scatter like dust”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta?f?s/
• Rhymes: -a?f?s

Noun

typhus (usually uncountable, plural typhuses)

1. (pathology) One of several similar diseases, characterised by high recurrent fever, caused by Rickettsia bacteria. Not to be confused with typhoid fever.

Synonyms

• camp fever, gaol fever, hospital fever, jail fever, prison fever, putrid fever, ship fever

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• Typhus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Typhoid fever on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From New Latin, from Ancient Greek; see above.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti.fys/

Noun

typhus m (plural typhus)

1. typhus

Further reading

• “typhus” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Noun

rickettsiosis (plural rickettsioses)

1. (medicine) Any severe infectious disease caused by several different bacteria of the order Rickettsiales and transmitted by parasitic arthropods.

See also

• Bullis fever
• Lone Star fever
• Q fever
• Rocky Mountain spotted fever
• trench fever
• typhus

Spanish

Noun

rickettsiosis f (plural rickettsiosis)

1. (medicine) rickettsiosis