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Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2020 The rickettsioses of the “Far East” or Asia–Australia–Pacific region include but are not limited to endemic typhus, scrub typhus, and more recently, tick typhus or spotted fever.
Daniel H. Paris +4 more
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Tropical Medicine &International Health, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Acute febrile illnesses in sub‐Saharan Africa are often attributed to malaria, yet many patients test negative for malaria parasites. The aetiology of nonmalarial fevers remains understudied. Here, we examine likely causes of febrile illnesses and their association with poor clinical outcomes in Angola.
Helga E. M. Gonçalves +3 more
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The Disaster Spreading with Louse: Typhus
, 2023 Tifüs, insanlık tarihinin en eski hastalıklarındandır. Tarihi ve coğrafi kökenleri tartışmalı olmakla birlikte bazı tıp tarihçileri tifüsün Thucydides tarafından tanımlanan eski bir Avrupa hastalığı olduğunu ileri sürmektedirler. Vücut biti “Pediculus
Karcı, Erol
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Climate drives the spatiotemporal dynamics of scrub typhus in China
, 2022 Scrub typhus is a climate-sensitive and life-threatening vector-borne disease that poses a growing public health threat. Although the climate-epidemic associations of many vector-borne diseases have been studied for decades, the impacts of climate on ...
Canjun Zheng +21 more
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Rickettsia prowazekii and Real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2006 Rickettsia prowazekii is the causative agent of epidemic typhus and a potential bioterrorism agent. Sensitive and specific rapid assays are needed to complement existing methods of detecting this organism. We developed a real-time quantitative polymerase
Sanela Svraka +4 more
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Discovery of a protective Rickettsia prowazekii antigen recognized by CD8+ T cells, RP884, using an in vivo screening platform. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Rickettsia prowazekii has been tested for biological warfare due to the high mortality that it produces after aerosol transmission of very low numbers of rickettsiae.
Michal Gazi +6 more
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Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2022 Rickettsia prowazekii, the bacterial cause of epidemic typhus in humans, proliferates mainly within the microvascular endothelial cells. Previous studies have shown that murine macrophage-like RAW264.7 cells are rapidly damaged if they are pretreated ...
Jenifer Turco
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Microbial Biotechnology, Volume 19, Issue 6, June 2026.By displaying the hemagglutinin (HA) or neuraminidase (NA) proteins of influenza viruses on the surface of baculoviruses and infected insect cells, a safe and flexible pseudovirus system capable of performing cytokine analysis, serological detection and antiviral drug screening is established.
Li‐Yun Cheng +7 more
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Slow Death and Key Workers: The Ordinary Crisis of Waste Work During the COVID‐19 Pandemic
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.Short Abstract This article examines the experiences of waste workers in Glasgow during the COVID‐19 pandemic to show how the everyday operations of the UK waste industry push bodies and infrastructures towards collapse. Drawing on interviews with waste workers, and Lauren Berlant's concepts of ‘slow death’ and the ‘crisis ordinary’, it argues that ...
Thom Davies +5 more
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Is murine typhus re-emerging in Portugal ?
, 1998 Murine typhus or endemic typhus is an infectious disease, clinically very similar to epidemic typhus, and caused by Rickettsia typhi(sometimes referred to as R. mooseri).
F Bacellar, I Lencastre, A R Filipe
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