Typhus
disease diseaseOn this page
Also known as endemic flea-borne typhusendemic typhus feverepidemic louse-borne typhusexanthematic typhus feverflea typhusgaol feverlouse-borne [epidemic] typhusmurine [endemic] typhustyphus fevertyphus-group rickettsiae diseasetyphus-group rickettsiosis
Summary
Typhus (MONDO:0001246) is a disease. A subtype of Rickettsiaceae infectious disease — broader associated-gene and molecular evidence is on the parent page (see Disease family below).
Clinical features
No curated clinical features (Orphanet) for this disease.
Identifiers
Disease identifiers
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Canonical name | typhus |
| Mondo ID | MONDO:0001246 |
| EFO | EFO:0009117 |
| Orphanet | 102023 |
| DOID | DOID:11256 |
| ICD-10-CM | A75 |
| ICD-11 | 292650041 |
| SNOMED CT | 240613006 |
| UMLS | C0041471 |
| MedGen | 11976 |
| GARD | 0019829 |
| Is cancer (heuristic) | no |
Also known as: endemic flea-borne typhus · endemic typhus fever · epidemic louse-borne typhus · exanthematic typhus fever · flea typhus · gaol fever · louse-borne [epidemic] typhus · murine [endemic] typhus · typhus fever · typhus-group rickettsiae disease · typhus-group rickettsiosis
Disease family
This is a subtype of Rickettsiaceae infectious disease. Genetic, therapeutic, and trial evidence is largely curated at the broader-term level — see the parent page for the associated-gene cohort and molecular evidence.
Classification path: disease › human disease › disease by etiologic mechanism › disease of primarily extrinsic mechanism › infectious disease › bacterial infectious disease › Rickettsiosis › Rickettsiaceae infectious disease › typhus
Related subtypes (2): spotted fever, rickettsial pneumonia
Subtypes (3): endemic typhus, epidemic louse-borne typhus, scrub typhus
Genetics & variants
GWAS landscape
No GWAS associations recorded — common-variant (GWAS) studies don’t cover this disease (typical for Mendelian / rare diseases). See the curated gene cohort and Mendelian overlap below.
Variant details and genetic-evidence tiers
No tiered GWAS variants or ClinVar records for this disease.
Genes & proteins
No associated-gene cohort resolved for this disease. Atlas builds the molecular and therapeutic sections — associated genes, protein families, druggability, pathways, interactions, and drug associations — by aggregating over a disease’s associated genes (resolved via GWAS / GenCC / ClinVar / CIViC), and none resolved here. This is expected for antibody-mediated, autoimmune, or otherwise non-gene-defined conditions; the curated evidence for this disease is its clinical features, GWAS susceptibility, and clinical trials (above).
Function
No pathway enrichment — requires an associated-gene cohort.
Therapeutics
No druggable-target or therapeutic data for this disease’s cohort.
Clinical trials & evidence
Clinical trials
Clinical trials: 0.
Related Atlas pages
No linked Atlas pages yet — the cross-entity mesh grows as the corpus expands.