infectious disease - a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact

typhus, typhus fever - rickettsial disease transmitted by body lice and characterized by skin rash and high fever

spotted fever - any of several severe febrile diseases characterized by skin rashes or spots on the skin

Q fever - an acute disease resembling influenza

rickettsialpox - mild infectious rickettsial disease caused by a bacterium of the genus Rickettsia transmitted to humans by the bite a mite that lives on rodents; characterized by chills and fever and headache and skin lesions that resemble chickenpox

trench fever - marked by pain in muscles and joints and transmitted by lice

scrub typhus, tsutsugamushi disease - transmitted by larval mites and widespread in Asia