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.
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Mechanisms to Evade the Phagocyte Respiratory Burst Arose by Convergent Evolution in Typhoidal Salmonella Serovars. [PDF]
, 2018 Typhoid fever caused by Salmonella enterica serovar (S.) Typhi differs in its clinical presentation from gastroenteritis caused by S. Typhimurium and other non-typhoidal Salmonella serovars.
Bäumler, Andreas J +6 more
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Risk1, a Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase Effector, Promotes
mBio, 2020 To establish a habitable intracellular niche, various pathogenic bacteria secrete effectors that target intracellular trafficking and modulate phosphoinositide (PI) metabolism.
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Salud Pública de México, 2020 Objetivo. Determinar la presencia de Rickettsia typhi en Rhipicephalus sanguineus s.l. y Amblyomma mixtum, en el sur de México. Material y métodos. Las garrapatas fueron colectadas en humanos y animales domésticos.
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Rickettsia typhi possesses phospholipase A2 enzymes that are involved in infection of host cells.
PLoS Pathogens, 2013 The long-standing proposal that phospholipase A2 (PLA2) enzymes are involved in rickettsial infection of host cells has been given support by the recent characterization of a patatin phospholipase (Pat2) with PLA2 activity from the pathogens Rickettsia ...
M Sayeedur Rahman +6 more
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Surface proteome analysis and characterization of surface cell antigen (Sca) or autotransporter family of Rickettsia typhi. [PDF]
PLoS Pathogens, 2012 Surface proteins of the obligate intracellular bacterium Rickettsia typhi, the agent of murine or endemic typhus fever, comprise an important interface for host-pathogen interactions including adherence, invasion and survival in the host cytoplasm.
Khandra T Sears +7 more
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Sodium Benzoate is Associated with Salmonella Typhi Resistant to Chloramphenicol [PDF]
, 2016 Background: There are many factors that govern growth and resistant of Salmonella typhi. A study had reported that the use of sodium benzoate caused antibiotic resistant.
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Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2018 We evaluated formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue specimens from 7 patients who died with encephalitic typhus in Hamburg, Germany, during World War II.
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Antibacterial activity of methanol extract Rhizophora mucronata leaves toward Salmonella typhi: leading the typhoid fever [PDF]
Pharmaciana, 2022 The community has utilized mangrove extensively, particularly as a component of traditional medicine. Rhizophora mucronata is one species that possess antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, and insecticidal properties. According to reports, R.
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Typhus Group Rickettsiosis, Germany, 2010–2017
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2018 Typhus group rickettsiosis is caused by the vectorborne bacteria Rickettsia typhi and R. prowazekii. R. typhi, which causes murine typhus, the less severe endemic form of typhus, is transmitted by fleas; R.
Jessica Rauch +6 more
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