Fifty years after his release from a concentration camp, a man develop signs and symptoms of typhus.He has no known contacts or source of disease exposure at this time; however, he may have had it in 1945.What is the most likely current diagnosis?

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Brill-Zinsser disease, also called recrudescent typhus, is seen in patients who have previously had louse-borne typhus.R.prowazekii lies dormant in the lymph tissue of the human host until the infection is reactivated.Brill-Zinsser disease is a milder disease than louse-borne typhus, and death is rare.

Fifty Years After His Release from a Concentration Camp, a Man