Rickettsia quintana is transmitted by the by contamination of a skin abrasion or of a louse-bite wound with the faeces of an infected body louse (Pediculus humanus corporis), there has also been reports of an infected louse bite passing on the infection.
Trench fever pathophysiology
Typhoid fever pathophysiology
Rift valley fever pathophysiology
Rocky Mountain spotted fever pathophysiology
Trench fever causes
Bubonic plague pathophysiology
Paratyphoid fever risk factors
Typhoid fever causes