Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2020 Rickettsia typhi and Bartonella henselae are the causative agents of murine typhus and cat-scratch disease, respectively. A small-scale survey (N = 202) was conducted in the Attica region, Greece, for determining the prevalence rates of IgG antibodies ...
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Targeting surface cell antigen 2 increases sensitivity of Rickettsia typhi detection. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical DiseasesBackgroundMurine typhus is a flea-borne disease caused by Rickettsia typhi that typically presents as an acute febrile illness. The diagnosis is often missed, leading to delays in appropriate treatment. A qPCR targeting a single gene (ompB) for R.
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Organ Donor Transmission of Rickettsia typhi to Kidney Transplant Recipients, Texas, USA, 2024 [PDF]
Emerging Infectious DiseasesMurine typhus, a fleaborne disease caused by the bacterium Rickettsia typhi, is found throughout temperate and tropical regions of the world. Transmission of R.
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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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Bioinformatics analysis of Rickettsia typhi autoimmune associations and screening of Streptomyces-derived inhibitors [PDF]
BioData MiningBackground Rickettsia typhi is the causative agent of epidemic murine typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. The infection can affect multiple vital organs, including the heart, lungs, kidneys, and brain.
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Complete genomes of Rickettsia typhi reveal a clonal population. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical DiseasesMurine typhus, caused by infection with Rickettsia typhi, is a neglected disease contributing to infectious disease burden in south- and southeast Asia. Despite its importance, we have minimal knowledge of the genomics of R.
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Detección molecular de Rickettsia typhi en perros de una comunidad rural de Yucatán, México
Biomédica: revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2016 Introducción. Rickettsia typhi es la bacteria causante del tifus múrido o endémico, el cual es transmitido al ser humano principalmente por medio de las heces infectadas de pulgas y en cuyo ciclo de infección se encuentran involucrados distintos animales
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Typhi Mykrobe: fast and accurate lineage identification and antimicrobial resistance genotyping directly from sequence reads for the typhoid fever agent Salmonella Typhi [PDF]
Genome MedicineBackground Typhoid fever results from systemic infection with Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi (Typhi) and causes 10 million illnesses annually. Disease control relies on prevention (water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions or vaccination) and ...
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Microbiology Spectrum, 2023 The genus Rickettsia is comprised of obligate intracellular bacterial parasites of a wide range of arthropod and vertebrate hosts. Some Rickettsia species (spp.) are responsible for serious human diseases globally.
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Liver Necrosis and Lethal Systemic Inflammation in a Murine Model of Rickettsia typhi Infection: Role of Neutrophils, Macrophages and NK Cells. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2016 Rickettsia (R.) typhi is the causative agent of endemic typhus, an emerging febrile disease that is associated with complications such as pneumonia, encephalitis and liver dysfunction.
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