See Also: disease, Brill-Zinsser(medicine)
Disease, Brill-Zinsser(health)
Brill-Zinsser disease(health)
brill-zinsser disease(medicine)
laccase(medicine)
laccase(dictionary)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Zinsser(medicine)
Zinsser, Hans(encyclopedia)
Zinsser, Hans(medicine)

brill-zinsser disease (medicine) and laccase (iou)


brill-zinsser disease (medicine)


brill-zinsser disease
Recrudescence of epidemic typhus years after the initial attack. The agent that causes epidemic typhus (Rickettsia prowazekii) remains viable for many years and then when host defenses are down, it is reactivated causing recurrent typhus. The disease is named for the physician Nathan Brill and the great bacteriologist Hans Zinsser.


laccase (iou)



laccase noun. L19.
[from medieval Latin lacca LAC noun1 + -ASE.]
Biochemistry. A copper-containing enzyme which oxidizes hydroquinones to quinones, involved in the setting of lac.