n :  an acute infectious disease milder than epidemic typhus but caused by the same rickettsia
 
Brill, Nathan Edwin (1860-1925), American physician. In 1910, after studying 221 cases, Brill published the first description of the disease now known as Brill's disease.
 
 
 
Similar sounding terms:  Bar·low's disease 
 
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