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CSP: species of gram negative, aerobic bacteria that is the etiologic agent of epidemic typhus fever acquired through contact with lice, as well as Brill's disease.,MSH: A species of gram-negative, aerobic bacteria that is the etiologic agent of epidemic typhus fever acquired through contact with lice (TYPHUS, EPIDEMIC LOUSE-BORNE) as well as Brill's disease.,NCI: A species of aerobic, Gram negative, rod and cocci shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Proteobacteria. This species is obligately intracellular, motile and transmitted to humans by the human body louse, Pediculus humanus corporis. R. prowazekii is a pathogen that causes epidemic typhus and Brill Zinsser disease.,NCI: Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Rickettsia prowazekii.