Human Infection withRickettsia felis,Kenya [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2010 To determine the cause of acute febrile illnesses other than malaria in the North Eastern Province, Kenya, we investigated rickettsial infection among patients from Garissa Provincial Hospital for 23 months during 2006-2008. Nucleic acid preparations of serum from 6 (3.7%) of 163 patients were positive for rickettsial DNA as determined by a genus ...
Allen L. Richards +9 more
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Simultaneous serological assessment of four zoonotic rickettsiae among dogs near the United States-Mexico border. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical DiseasesObligately intracellular rickettsiae cause a broad spectrum of disease in humans and animals, ranging from mild illness to life-threatening infections. Multiple species co-circulate along the southern United States of America-northern Mexico border, yet ...
Francesca Rubino +8 more
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Bartonella quintana and Rickettsia felis in Gabon
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2005 We detected Rickettsia felis DNA in Ctenocephalides felis and Bartonella quintana DNA in 3 Pulex irritans fleas taken from a pet Cercopithecus cephus monkey in Gabon, sub-Saharan Africa. This is the first report of B. quintana in the human flea.
Jean-Marc Rolain +3 more
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Molecular Evidence of Rickettsia conorii subsp. raoultii and Rickettsia felis in Haemaphysalis intermedia Ticks in Sirumalai, Eastern Ghats, Tamil Nadu, South India. [PDF]
Microorganisms, 2023 Nallan K +7 more
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Nationwide prevalence of Rickettsia felis infections in patients with febrile illness in Bangladesh [PDF]
New Microbes and New Infections, 2017 From July 2015 to December 2016, the presence of rickettsial pathogens was investigated for 414 patients with unknown fever in eight places in all the divisions of Bangladesh. Rickettsia felis was identified in blood samples from all the regions (overall
N.F. Chowdhury +16 more
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Rickettsia felis and Other Rickettsia Species in Chigger Mites Collected from Wild Rodents in North Carolina, USA. [PDF]
Microorganisms, 2022 Ponnusamy L +7 more
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Human Rickettsia felis infections in Mainland China. [PDF]
Front Cell Infect Microbiol, 2022 We identified four flea-borne spotted fever cases caused by Rickettsia felis in a retrospective survey of 182 patients with fever of unknown origin (FUO) in China between 2021 and 2022. The clinical signs and symptoms of the patients were similar to those of other rickettsioses, including fever, rash, and liver and kidney dysfunction. All four patients
Teng Z +6 more
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Rickettsia felis–associated Uneruptive Fever, Senegal [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2010 During November 2008-July 2009, we investigated the origin of unknown fever in Senegalese patients with a negative malaria test result, focusing on potential rickettsial infection. Using molecular tools, we found evidence for Rickettsia felis-associated illness in the initial days of infection in febrile Senegalese patients without malaria.
Cristina Socolovschi +7 more
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Variations of Plasmid Content in Rickettsia felis
PLoS ONE, 2008 Since its first detection, characterization of R. felis has been a matter of debate, mostly due to the contamination of an initial R. felis culture by R. typhi. However, the first stable culture of R. felis allowed its precise phenotypic and genotypic characterization, and demonstrated that this species belonged to the spotted fever group rickettsiae ...
Pierre‐Edouard Fournier +12 more
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Rickettsia felisInfections, New Zealand [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2012 To the Editor: Members of the genus Rickettsia have garnered much attention worldwide in recent years with the emergence of newly recognized rickettsioses. In New Zealand, only Rickettsia typhi and R. felis, belonging to the typhus and spotted fever groups, respectively, have so far been found (1). R.
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