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Lichen (medicine) and prison fever typhus (medicine)


Lichen (medicine)


lichen


A large group of symbiotic associations between fungi and green and occasionally blue green algae. Several genera of algae and of fungi are involved and the associations are so stable and of such varied but distinct types that the lichens have been classified into genera and species. A variety of incompatibility phenomena are often manifest between individual lichens. Confined to terrestrial habitats and often used as indicators of pollution status of the environment.


prison fever typhus (medicine)


prison fever typhus -->
epidemic typhus
<infectious disease> A severe acute disease with prolonged high fever up to 40?C (104?F), intractable headache, and a pink-to-red raised rash. The cause is a microorganism called Rickettsia prowazekii.

It is found worldwide and is transmitted by lice. The lice become infected on typhus patients and transmit illness to Other people. The mortality increases with age and over half of untreated persons age 50 or more die.

Also called European, classic, or louse-borne typhus and jail fever.