This report documents the occurrence of Brill-Zinsser disease in a 48-year-old woman who experienced typhus fever in a German concentration camp. This is the first report of a case of recrudescent typhus in a European immigrating to Canada following World War II. The last reported case of Brill-Zinsser disease in Canada occurred in 1953.
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