A person was bitten by an infected louse and developed a disease. What is the probable diagnosis
Scrub tyohus
Epidemic typhus
Endemic typhus
Indian tick typhus
louseborn typhus is epidemic typhus caused by R.prowazekii whose distribution is worldwide,pediculis humanus corporis(human body louse) act as vector, incubation period is 5_15 days,disease stas with fever and chills, a characteristic rash appears on 4th or 5th day stas on trunk spreads over limbs except face,palm,soles..2nd week:patient become delirious and stuporous.recrudescent typhus(Brill zinsser disease)is by reactivation leading to recrudescence of epidemic typhus Ref:anantnarayan and paniker's microbiology 10th edition
Bacteriology