Trench Fever - Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Trench fever is also called as "five-day fever". Usually this disease is caused by the gram-negative bacterium Bartonella quintana which is typically a louse borne disease and it was observed originally in military people during World War I and II. Bartonella quintana infection’s only reservoir is humans. This Trench fever caused a huge epidemic during the period of World War I, because it is the source of morbidity and mortality and it affected 1 million military soldiers. Because of this infection, soldiers were reported with relapsing fever, headache, dizziness, and shin pain. Typically, the symptoms of trench fever are acute with an occasional rash. Diagnosis is made through blood culture tests. People with Trench fever are usually treated with macrolide or Doxycycline. Typically, this infection rarely causes death but in some severe cases can be debilitating. Trench fever infection in previous years became endemic in some of the countries like Mexico, Eritrea, Tunisia,...