A Sporadic Benign Rickettsial Fever With Occasional Exanthem
Authors: NOXON TOOMEY
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1933)

Article1 January 1933A Sporadic Benign Rickettsial Fever With Occasional ExanthemNOXON TOOMEY, M.D., F.A.C.P.NOXON TOOMEY, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-6-7-921 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptIn the north temperate latitude, fevers of abrupt onset and intense, short course, but without rash or contagiousness are among the commoner ailments of the summer months. Food or water borne infections cause a goodly proportion of such cases. The respiratory tract infections, exacerbations of chronic intestinal, nasopharyngeal or other focal infections, and the acute pyogenic processes of cryptic location all contribute such a share of cases that by coincidence and concatenation of circumstances they may even give rise at times to the false appearance of a sporadic or epidemic disease being present in a locality. Acute non-exanthematic infections of...References1 NEILL MH: Experimental typhus, Pub. Health Repts., 1917, xxx, 1105. CrossrefGoogle Scholar2 MAXCYHAVENS KFLC: A series of cases giving a positive Weil-Felix reaction, Am. Jr. Trop. Med., 1923, iii, 495-507. CrossrefGoogle Scholar3 BREINL F: Studies on the typhus virus in the louse, Jr. Infect. Dis., 1924, xxxiv, 1-12. CrossrefGoogle Scholar4 FLETCHERLESSLAR WJE: Tropical typhus, Bull. Inst. Med. Res., Federated Malay States, No. 2, 1925; and Bull. No. 2, 1926. 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