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Rickettsia felis in the Americas

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2006
Abstract:  The authors describe their work in the Americas in Rickettsia felis cases in humans and the presence of Rickettsia felis in vectors.
Simone Berger Calic, Cláudio Mafra, Jorge E. Zavala-Velázquez, David H. Walker, Moreira Galvão, Moreira Galvão, Jorge Zavala-Castro   +6 more
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[Severe encephalitis caused by infection of Rickettsia felis: a case report].

Zhonghua wei zhong bing ji jiu yi xue, 2021
Rickettsia felis is a Gram-negative prokaryotic organism that is obligatorically parasitic in cells. Cat fleas are the main vector of Rickettsia felis. Clinical symptoms of human infection with Rickettsia felis include fever, fatigue, headache, macular ...
Lili Zhang, Junhu Zhang, Ming Hu, Xungang Feng   +3 more
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Small Indian Mongooses (Herpestes auropunctatus) Serve As Reservoirs of Bartonella henselae and Rickettsia felis Vectored by Ctenocephalides felis.

Vector Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, 2021
Small Indian mongooses (SIMs, Herpestes auropunctatus) have invasively inhabited over 60 islands worldwide. They have been confirmed as a reservoir of rabies, leptospirosis, and salmonellosis; however, their role in the epidemiology of other zoonoses is ...
Kexin Fang, Kaitlyn Philpot, Xinyu Chi, J. Ketzis, A. Du, C. Yao   +5 more
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Rickettsia felis rickettsiosis in Yucatán

The Lancet, 2000
Summary Three patients with fever, exanthem, headache, and central-nervous-system involvement were diagnosed with Rickettsia felis infection by specific PCR of blood or skin and seroconversion to surrogate Rickettsia antigens. Although R felis's relationship to other Rickettsia species is known and the pathogenic potential of this clade is ...
Jorge E. Zavala-Velázquez, Gerardo Becerra-Carmona, Jose A. Ruiz-Sosa, David H. Walker, Roger A Sánchez-Elias   +4 more
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Rickettsia felisinCtenocephalides felisfrom Argentina

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, 2008
This article reports on the detection of Rickettsia felis in Argentina in Ctenocephalides felis fleas collected from a dog and analyzed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification and DNA sequencing.
Santiago Nava, Laura Pérez-Martínez, Sonia Santibáñez, José A. Oteo, José M. Venzal, Aránzazu Portillo   +5 more
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Rickettsia felisin Cat Fleas in Taiwan

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, 2009
We describe the first detection of Rickettsia felis in cat fleas (Ctenocephalides felis) in Taiwan. Natural infections of R. felis in cat fleas were isolated and confirmed using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and an immunofluorescence assay. The infection rate in individual fleas and the minimum infection rate in pooled fleas detected by the PCR ...
Tsai, Kun-Hsien, Lu, Hsiu-Ying, Huang, Jyh-Hsiung, Wang, Pei-Ju, Wang, Hsi-Chieh, Huang, Chin-Gi, Wu, Wen-Jer, Shu, Pei-Yun   +7 more
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Potential exposure of humans to Rickettsia felis in Greece

Acta Tropica, 2018
Rickettsia felis is a flea-transmitted pathogen however, in Greece, much work has been done on another flea-borne pathogen, R. typhi; human cases have been described and high-risk areas have been characterized. Nevertheless, little is known about human infections caused by R.
Georgios Chaliotis, Yannis Tselentis, Dimosthenis Chochlakis, Anna Psaroulaki, Elliona Gkika, Loukia Kalogeraki, Nikolaos Partalis, Georgia Polymili, Stefania Kapetanaki, Antonios Germanakis   +9 more
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THE PRESENCE OF RICKETTSIA FELIS IN COMMUNITIES IN THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS OF VIETNAM.

Acta Tropica, 2023
Minh-Trang Thi Hoang, Van-Phuong Ngo, J. Stenos, Dinh Ng-Nguyen   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Rickettsia Felis Case Cluster in a Military Family.

Military Medicine
Cases of flea-borne spotted fever (FBSF) have been on a steady increase in the southern United States and produce the highest numbers of reported vector-borne disease cases in Texas.
Ralph A Stidham, Paul A. Lenhart, Walter Roachell, Le Jiang, Mauricio E Solis, Jason L Hipps   +5 more
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Rickettsia felis and species of fleas parasitizing on household dogs in the Central Highlands of Vietnam.

Comparative Immunology, Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, 2022
Van Trong Nguyen, Hieu Quoc Nguyen, Van Thai Nguyen, Dinh Ng-Nguyen   +3 more
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