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What caused trench fever?

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Bartonella quintana, which is an aerobic gram-negative rod bacteria.

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Trench fever is a louse-borne disease caused by the gram-negative bacterium Bartonella quintana and observed originally in military populations during World Wars I and II. Symptoms are an acute, recurring febrile illness, occasionally with a rash.

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