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Rickettsia typhi, Bartonella henselae, and related zoonotic agents in fleas from domestic cats (Felis catus) from the Rio Grande Valley, Texas. [PDF]

Parasit Vectors
Background Flea-borne rickettsiosis and bartonellosis are emerging diseases in humans and animals. There is increasing concern for the emergence of Rickettsia typhi (agent of murine typhus or flea-borne typhus) in humans of southern USA, for which cats ...
Balasubramanian S, Zecca IB, Koger A, Hamer SA.   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Murine Typhus: An Important Consideration for the Nonspecific Febrile Illness [PDF]

Case Reports in Medicine, 2012
Murine typhus is a widely distributed flea-borne infection caused by Rickettsia typhi. Symptoms of murine typhus are nonspecific and mimic a variety of other infectious diseases.
Gurjot Basra, Megan A. Berman, Lucas S. Blanton   +2 more
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Flea-borne Rickettsia species in fleas, Caldas department, Colombia [PDF]

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2020
Introduction: Rickettsioses are zoonotic diseases caused by pathogenic bacteria of the genus Rickettsia and transmitted to man by means of arthropod vectors such as ticks, fleas, mites and lice. Historically, Caldas Department has reported a significant
Carol B Colonia, Alejandro Ramírez-Hernández, Juliana Gil-Mora, Juan C Agudelo, Gabriel Jaime Castaño Villa, Camilo Pino, Paola Betancourt-Ruiz, Jorge E Pérez Cárdenas, Lucas S Blanton, Marylin Hidalgo   +9 more
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Outcomes of Hospitalized and Critically Ill Adults with Murine Typhus, Galveston, Texas, USA, 2019-2023. [PDF]

Emerg Infect Dis
Murine typhus is a reemerging infectious disease with the potential for severe manifestations. We conducted a retrospective study to examine severe illness in those hospitalized with murine typhus in Galveston, Texas.
Pickich M, Singh P, Polychronopoulou E, Nishi SP, Blanton LS, Duarte AG.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Organ Donor Transmission of Rickettsia typhi to Kidney Transplant Recipients, Texas, USA, 2024. [PDF]

Emerg Infect Dis
Murine typhus, a fleaborne disease caused by the bacterium Rickettsia typhi, is found throughout temperate and tropical regions of the world. Transmission of R.
Jones JC, García OG, Villalba JA, Hinojosa R, Taylor ML, Annambhotla P, Kapturczak MH, Mayes B, Karpathy SE, Gleaton AN, Moon L, Singleton J, Basavaraju SV, Paddock CD.   +13 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis in a Patient with Severe Flea-Borne Typhus

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Flea-borne typhus (FBT) is an infection caused by the bacteria Rickettsia typhi. It is usually an acute undifferentiated febrile illness; however, approximately one-quarter of patients suffer from organ-specific complications.
Argueta, Franklin A., Dayton, Christopher L., Barraza Aguilar, Andrea, King, Kourtney B., Khalil, Samy, Kellogg, Trey, Martin Albo, Santiago, Anstead, Gregory M.   +7 more
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Improved Case Detection of Fleaborne Typhus by PCR Testing, Los Angeles County, California, USA, 2022-2024. [PDF]

Emerg Infect Dis
Fleaborne typhus (FBT) is reemerging as a significant cause of febrile illness in southern California, USA. We performed enhanced testing on low-titer Rickettsia typhi antibody–positive specimens from patients with FBT-compatible illness reported in Los
Sanosyan A, Contreras ZA, Ngo V, Brown MK, Green NM, Borenstein LA, Hacker JK, Probert WS, Quintana AC, Haw MP, Halai UA.   +10 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Surveillance of Flea-Borne Typhus in California, 2011-2019. [PDF]

Am J Trop Med Hyg
ABSTRACT. Flea-borne typhus (FBT), also referred to as murine typhus, is an acute febrile disease in humans caused by the bacteria Rickettsia typhi. Currently, cases of FBT are reported for public health surveillance purposes (i.e., to detect incidence and outbreaks) in a few U.S. states. In California, healthcare providers and testing laboratories are
Yomogida K, Kjemtrup A, Martínez-López B, Ibrahim M, Contreras Z, Ngo V, Halai UA, Balter S, Feaster M, Zahn M, Shearer E, Sorvillo R, Balanji N, Torres C, Prado B, Porse C, Kramer V.   +16 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Meningoencephalitis in Flea-Borne Typhus: A Report of Two Cases and a Review of CNS Complications

Pathogens
Typhus (FBT), caused by Rickettsia typhi, rarely causes neurological disease. Herein, we describe neurological involvement in two cases of FBT. In the first case, an adult presented with persistent fever which deteriorated into status epilepticus. He was
Camille E. Spears, Divya Chandramohan, Melinda B. Tanabe, Nicholas C. Anstead, Emily L. M. Turkily, Lucas S. Blanton, Thelma Akien, Christopher L. Dayton, James C. Saca, Gregory M. Anstead   +9 more
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Case Report: Murine typhus complicated by symmetrical peripheral gangrene: first report and diagnostic insights from metagenomic next-generation sequencing. [PDF]

Front Immunol
BackgroundMurine typhus, a flea-borne infection caused by Rickettsia typhi, often presents with nonspecific symptoms that delay diagnosis. While usually self-limiting, it can rarely progress to multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS).
Zhu H, Hu L, Feng Z, Zhang Z, Zhu H, Li H.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources