What Are the Causes of Typhus?
Typhus is a group of illnesses that share some commonalities. They are caused by species in the bacterial tribe Rickettsiae. The two typhus fevers are louse-borne typhus fever and murine typhus fever. Although they are caused by different bacteria, these illnesses are clinically similar and share the hallmark symptoms of high fever and a distinctive rash. Clinically, murine typhus fever is a milder version of louse-borne typhus fever. Scrub typhus is closely related to the typhus fevers, although it is a different illness.
