Preferred Name |
Trench fever |
ID |
http://www.orpha.net/ORDO/Orphanet_64694 |
alternative_term |
Bartonellosis due to Bartonella quintana infection |
definition |
A rare bacterial infectious disease caused by the louse-borne bacterium Bartonella quintana and characterized by a variable clinical picture with acute or insidious onset of a (potentially relapsing) febrile illness, headache, leg pain (most typically the shinbone), endocarditis, and thrombocytopenia. There may also be only non-specific symptoms that mimic other infections. The disease nowadays most commonly affects socially disadvantaged persons in urban areas. |
definition_citation |
Orphanet |
expertlink |
https://www.orpha.net/consor/cgi-bin/OC_Exp.php?lng=en&Expert=64694 |
hasDbXref |
ICD-10:A79.0 MeSH:D014205 ICD-11:1C11.1 MedDRA:10044582 UMLS:C0040830 |
label |
Trench fever |
notation |
ORPHA:64694 |
part_of | |
prefixIRI |
ORDO:Orphanet_64694 |
prefLabel |
Trench fever |
treeView | |
subClassOf |