Rickettsia prowazekii is an obligate intracellular parasite causing epidemic typhus, primarily transmitted via lice bites. Symptoms include vasculitis, thrombosis, and systemic infections. Diagnosis involves serological tests and cell culture. Treatment includes chloramphenicol and tetracyclines; prevention focuses on vector control and hygiene. RMSF and Q fever are related rickettsial diseases.
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Bacteriology
The phrase ‘Zoonosis’ is a Greek word that comes from zoon (which means animal) and osis (which means ill). Zoonoses (plural: zoonosis) therefore, are animal diseases transmissible to humans. Zoonotic infections which can also be called zoonosis are diseases/infections caused by pathogens that can be passed or shared between humans and animals. They are diseases
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Epidemiology
An anthroponotic disease, or anthroponosis, is an infectious disease in which a disease causing agent carried by humans is transferred to other animals. It may cause the same disease or a different disease in other animals. The opposite of anthroponosis or anthroponotic disease is zoonosis. Zoonosis is a disease transmitted from animals to humans. Zoonoses
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Epidemiology, Public Health & Parasitic Diseases (Parasitology)