Tyfus, Napoleon og Emil i Lønneberget

About this episode

The episode explores the impact of typhus on literature and history, including its influence on the European map and its relation to rickettsioses.

Tyfus har satt sitt preg på både litteratur og historie - og Europakartet kunne kanskje sett annerledes ut var det ikke for denne vektorbårne bakterien. Jørgen, Nikolai og Ingrid drar på reise igjen, denne gang for å finne ut av mer om tyfus om dens slektninger, rickettsiosene. Referanser: 1) Pesapane F et al. Hieronymi Fracastorii: the Italian scientist who described the "French disease". An Bras Dermatol. 2015 Sep-Oct;90(5):684-6. doi: 10.1590/abd1806-4841.20154262. PMID: 26560214; PMCID: PMC4631234. 2) Peterson, R. K. D. 1995. Insects,disease, and military history: the Napoleonic campaigns and historical perception . American Entomologist. 41:147-160. 3) Angelakis E et al. The History of Epidemic Typhus. Microbiol Spectr. 2016 Aug;4(4). doi: 10.1128/microbiolspec.PoH-0010-2015. PMID: 27726780. 4) Larry Lutwick. Brill-Zinsser disease. The Lancet, Volume 357, Issue 9263, 2001, Pages 1198-1200, ISSN 0140-6736, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(00)04339-7. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673600043397) 5) Weiss E, Strauss BS. The life and career of Howard Taylor Ricketts. Rev Infect Dis. 1991 Nov-Dec;13(6):1241-2. doi: 10.1093/clinids/13.6.1241. PMID…

People in this episode

Hosts: Jørgen, Nikolai, Ingrid

Topics covered

• typhus
• history
• literature
• vector-borne diseases
• Napoleonic campaigns

Keywords

• typhus
• rickettsioses
• Napoleon
• literature
• history
• vector-borne diseases

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Hieronymi Fracastorii: the Italian scientist who described the 'French disease', Insects, disease, and military history: the Napoleonic campaigns and historical perception, The History of Epidemic Typhus, Brill-Zinsser disease, The life and career of Howard Taylor Ricketts, Ricketts creates rickettsiology, the study of vector-borne obligately intracellular bacteria, Epidemier. En natur-og kulturhistorie

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