A Note on Cases of Typhus Fever in Burma and Their Distribution

A Case of Tropical Typhus Serologically Related to 'Scrub Typhus' of the Federated Malay States

In a recent publication, Kundu (1932) described a case of typhus fever contracted in Burma, the clinical diagnosis being confirmed by a strongly positive Weil-Felix reaction with proteus X19. In the conclusions to his paper Kundu refers to the possibility of the tropical typhus which occurs in Malaya overlapping into Burma, and suggested that further investigation in the future would probably r...

Brief Notes on Two Cases of Scrub Typhus Fever with Unusual Neurological Signs

On the So-Called Epidemic of "Malignant" Purpuric Fever in Ireland, as It Occurred Amongst the Troops

In the present paper, the army medical experience of the disease which has been variously designated Pestis, Malignant Typhus, Cerebro-spinal Typhus, Malignant Purpuric Fever, and so on, is passed in review. For the sake of clearness, it has been deemed better to arrange the facts under two divisions. The first includes a short medical history of the occurrences, arranged in their chronological...

A Note on Fevers of the Typhus Group in Assam

While carrying out routine Widal tests at the Pasteur Institute Laboratory, Shillong, we met from time to time with specimens from patients in Assam whose history suggested enteric fever, but whose serum gave Widal reactions not in the least indicative of that disease, even when repeated two or three times at weekly intervals. Whilst this, of course, is a common enough experience in any laborat...

Remarks on the Typhus Fever of Kumaon and on the Suggestion That It Is Transmitted by a Tick

Bhim Tal and Sat lal, small hill stations in the lower Kumaon hills, have for long had an unfortunate reputation on account of the frequent occurrence among visitors there of a serious and often fatal disease. This was recognised by McKechnie as typhus fever. Colonel Megaw, * in an interesting discussion of these cases, has put forward the suggestion that the disease is the same as, or closely ...