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Two pathogens and one disease: detection and identification of flea-borne Rickettsiae in areas endemic for murine typhus in California. [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Medical Entomology, 2012
Results of an environmental assessment conducted in a newly emergent focus of murine typhus in southern California are described. Opossums, Didelphis virginiana Kerr, infested with cat fleas,Ctenocephalides felis Buché, in the suburban area were abundant.
Gregory A Dasch   +2 more
exaly   +5 more sources

Vector Control Has a Role to Play in Mitigating the High Incidence of Flea-borne Typhus in Los Angeles County, California [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the Vertebrate Pest Conference, 2016
More than 500 human cases of flea-borne typhus have been reported from Los Angeles and Orange Counties over the past 20 years. Only West Nile virus exceeds flea-borne typhus as an important vector-borne disease in these counties. Despite this, flea-borne
Fujioka, Kenn   +3 more
exaly   +6 more sources

Transmission of Flea-Borne Zoonotic Agents*

open access: yesAnnual Review of Entomology, 2012
Flea-borne zoonoses such as plague (Yersinia pestis) and murine typhus (Rickettsia typhi) caused significant numbers of human cases in the past and remain a public health concern.
Rebecca J. Eisen, Kenneth L Gage
exaly   +2 more sources

Flea-Borne Rickettsioses and Scrub Typhus in Patients with Suspected Arbovirus Infection in Bangkok, Thailand

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases
Background: In urban Thailand, arboviral infections dominate diagnoses of acute undifferentiated fevers (AUFs) owing to their well-defined epidemiology and characteristic clinical presentations. However, rickettsial diseases, also endemic in this setting, remain under-recognized owing to challenges in early ...
Sarawut Khongwichit, Yong Poovorawan
exaly   +3 more sources

Serological study of louse borne and flea borne typhus in Addis Ababa.

Ethiopian medical journal, 1990
A total of 500 subjects (288 males and 212 females) were tested in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in Virology and Rickettsiology Division of the National Research Institute of Health, in 1987, for anti R. prowazekii using Complement Fixation Test (CFT). Out of these 58 subjects (41 males and 17 females) were also tested for anti R.
L, Gebreselassie, A, Abebe, S, Abebe
openaire   +1 more source

Spotted Fever Rickettsioses, Flea-Borne Rickettsioses, and Typhus

2021
Linda Kidd, Edward B. Breitschwerdt
openaire   +1 more source

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