Trench fever is a disease caused by the facultative intracellular gram-negative bacterium Bartonella quintana. It affected several million people worldwide during the two world wars. The incidence of trench fever dramatically decreased after World War II, but recently it reemerged in urban homeless populations of developed countries. The most frequent presentation of trench fever includes repeated cycles of high fever, headache, and dizziness.
Category
Infectious disease
Brite
Infectious diseases [BR:br08401]
Bacterial infections
Infections caused by alpha proteobacteria
H00327 Trench fever
Human diseases in ICD-11 classification [BR:br08403]
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Other bacterial diseases
1C11 Bartonellosis
H00327 Trench fever