Converse of object

• contract: There he was " employed " as a medical orderly, until he again contracted typhus.

• have: He stated that twelve persons occupied the house, and that seven of them had typhus.

• catch: After he had caught typhus, he was captured by the Red Army in the course of a Black retreat.

• bear: During the Russian revolution, it is thought that three million people died from louse borne typhus.

• develop: Following a postmortem in 1838 he developed typhus and almost died.

Adjective modifier

• endemic: There was no vaccine for endemic typhus in the Great War.

• louse-borne: These include infections of the skin and eyes ( e.g. trachoma ) and infections carried by lice, e.g. louse-borne epidemic typhus.

• tick-borne: The group includes epidemic and endemic typhus fevers, tick-borne typhus, scrub typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

• murine: The term ' murine typhus ' is used for salmonella in animals.

• spotted: Typhoid fever and spotted typhus caused an excessively high number of deaths.

• e.g.: These include infections of the skin and eyes ( e.g. trachoma ) and infections carried by lice, e.g. louse-borne epidemic typhus.

Modifies a noun

• epidemic: There is mention of a typhus epidemic in 1891 which resulted in 29 deaths.

• case: During that year, 115 fever patients were admitted, over half being typhus cases.

• victim: Photo: American dignitaries inspect typhus victims at Buchenwald camp [ from Irving collection ] Quick navigation Mr Irving, take me to.. .

• bacillus: In fact we even encouraged the underground resistance movements to spread typhus bacilli among their enemies.

• patient: He was never delirious the way most typhus patients are.

Noun used with modifier

• scrub: A number of rodents serve as reservoirs for human diseases, such as bubonic plague, tularemia, scrub typhus, and others.

• epidemic: Epidemic typhus is only likely to affect volunteer workers who come into close contact with locals.