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Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2008 To the Editor: Rickettsioses, or typhoid diseases, are caused by obligate intracellular bacteria of the order Rickettsiales. The ubiquitous murine typhus is caused by Rickettsia typhi. Although cat fleas and opposums have been suggested as vectors in some places in the United States, the main vector of murine typhus is the rat flea (Xenopspylla cheopis)
Nadjet Mouffok +2 more
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PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2014 BackgroundThere is a paucity of published reports on pregnancy outcome following scrub and murine typhus despite these infections being leading causes of undifferentiated fever in Asia.
Rose McGready +2 more
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A spatio-temporal analysis of scrub typhus and murine typhus in Laos; implications from changing landscapes and climate [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2021 Tamalee Roberts +2 more
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Rickettsiosis in Southeast Asia: Summary for International Travellers during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2022 Rickettsiosis is an important cause of febrile illness among travellers visiting Southeast Asia (SEA). The true incidence of rickettsiosis is underestimated; however, murine typhus and scrub typhus are widely distributed across SEA.
Thundon Ngamprasertchai +2 more
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Severe Rickettsia typhi Infections, Costa Rica
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2023 Murine typhus is a febrile, fleaborne disease caused by infection with Rickettsia typhi bacteria. Cases can range from mild and nonspecific to fatal. We report 2 cases of murine typhus in Costa Rica, confirming the presence and circulation of R.
Diana Chinchilla +4 more
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Severe Murine Typhus with Pulmonary System Involvement
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2014 We encountered a case of severe murine typhus complicated by acute respiratory distress syndrome. To determine worldwide prevalence of such cases, we reviewed the literature and found that respiratory symptoms occur in ≈30% of murine typhus patients.
Thomas W. van der Vaart +6 more
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Molecular and serological evidence of flea-associated typhus group and spotted fever group rickettsial infections in Madagascar [PDF]
, 2017 This research was supported by the Wellcome Trust (RCDF and Senior Fellowship to ST, #081705 and #095171), the Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, and the Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System, a Division of the Armed Forces Health ...
Harrison, Thomas Alan +6 more
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Detection of arbitrarily-shaped clusters using a neighbor-expanding approach: A case study on murine typhus in South Texas [PDF]
, 2011 Background Kulldorff's spatial scan statistic has been one of the most widely used statistical methods for automatic detection of clusters in spatial data. One limitation of this method lies in the fact that it has to rely on scan windows with predefined
Zhijun Yao, Junmei Tang, F Benjamin Zhan
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Murine Typhus: An Important Consideration for the Nonspecific Febrile Illness
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 +2 more
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Rickettsia typhi infection presenting as severe ARDS
IDCases, 2019 Murine typhus, also known as endemic typhus, is a disease resulting from an infection caused by the gram-negative bacillus Rickettsia typhi. Murine typhus is identified worldwide, predominantly in tropical and subtropical geographic locations ...
Liem T. Tran +6 more
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