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Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2021 Scrub typhus is a neglected tropical disease predominantly occurring in Asia. The causative agent is a bacterium transmitted by the larval stage of mites found in rural vegetation in endemic regions.
Hisham Ahmed Imad +14 more
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A systematic review of the economic impact of rapid diagnostic tests for dengue. [PDF]
, 2017 BACKGROUND: Dengue fever is rapidly expanding geographically, with about half of the world's population now at risk. Among the various diagnostic options, rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) are convenient and prompt, but limited in terms of accuracy and ...
Alexander, Neal +2 more
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Murine typhus in Mexico City: report of an imported case
Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2019 Murine typhus is endemic in several countries. We herein report an imported case of murine typhus caused by Rickettsia typhi in Mexico City. This is the first report of a case after almost 20 years since the last report.
Sokani Sánchez-Montes +5 more
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Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 56, Issue 1, February 2026.Physiological stress during early life can impede development, and signals of this are preserved in nonremodelling tissues such as dental enamel. This article describes nonspecific stress markers in the teeth of European (n = 30) and Southern Chinese (n = 15) adult migrants to New Zealand, and colony‐born children (n = 10) interred in four historic ...
Lucy A. Kavale‐Henderson +6 more
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Splenic infarction secondary to probable scrub typhus
Sri Lankan Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2023 A mite‑borne infection, scrub typhus is endemic in India. It causes a myriad of complications with multisystemic involvement like meningoencephalitis, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), myocarditis and is also known to cause abdominal ...
A. Mathur, S. Srivastava, A. Mishra
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Inactivation of SAM-methyltransferase is the mechanism of attenuation of a historic louse borne typhus vaccine strain [PDF]
, 2014 Louse borne typhus (also called epidemic typhus) was one of man's major scourges, and epidemics of the disease can be reignited when social, economic, or political systems are disrupted.
AV Rodionov +17 more
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Journal of Microscopy, Volume 301, Issue 2, Page 187-205, February 2026.Abstract Conventional optical microscopy imaging of obligate intracellular bacteria is hampered by the small size of bacterial cells, tight clustering exhibited by some bacterial species and challenges relating to labelling such as background from host cells, a lack of validated reagents, and a lack of tools for genetic manipulation.
Alison J. North +7 more
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Dengue Fever and Its Burden in Burkina Faso: An Overview
Reviews in Medical Virology, Volume 36, Issue 1, January 2026.ABSTRACT Dengue fever is an arbovirus disease caused by the dengue virus and has been diagnosed in Burkina Faso for many years. In recent decades, the disease has become a growing concern, thereby impacting the public health system. Several factors contribute to the pathogenesis of dengue fever, including the immune system and the virulence of ...
Wendimi Fatimata Belem +3 more
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Epidemic Typhus Imported from Algeria
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 1999 We report epidemic typhus in a French patient returning from Algeria. The diagnosis was confirmed by serologic testing and the isolation of Rickettsia prowazekii in blood. Initially the patient was thought to have typhoid fever.
M. Niang, P. Brouqui, D. Raoult
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Serological diagnosis of typhoid fever : a review of the limitations of the Widal test [PDF]
, 1991 Typhoid fever remains an infectious disease of major importance worldwide. Even in developed countries, sporadic outbreaks continue to occur, often localised around a single origin -an asymptomatic carrier or an infected food source particularly ...
Borg, Michael Angelo
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