Rickettsia felis in Xenopsylla cheopis, Java, Indonesia [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2006 Rickettsia typhi and R. felis, etiologic agents of murine typhus and fleaborne spotted fever, respectively, were detected in Oriental rat fleas (Xenopsylla cheopis) collected from rodents and shrews in Java, Indonesia. We describe the first evidence of R.
Ju Jiang +5 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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The epidemiology of Rickettsia felis infecting fleas of companion animals in eastern Australia [PDF]
Parasites & Vectors, 2018 Background Flea-borne spotted fever (FBSF) caused by Rickettsia felis is an arthropod-borne zoonosis. This study aimed to determine the prevalence, primary species and genotype(s) of R. felis infecting fleas from dogs and cats.
Yen Thon Teoh +5 more
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A case of Rickettsia felis infection-induced encephalitis in a pregnant woman [PDF]
World journal of emergency medicineQiu J, Feng H, Liu L, Zhu J.
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Rickettsia typhi and R. felis in Rat Fleas (Xenopsylla cheopis), Oahu, Hawaii [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2008 Rickettsia typhi (prevalence 1.9%) and R. felis (prevalence 24.8%) DNA were detected in rat fleas (Xenopsylla cheopis) collected from mice on Oahu Island, Hawaii. The low prevalence of R. typhi on Oahu suggests that R. felis may be a more common cause of
Marina E. Eremeeva +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 burden in the tropics [PDF]
International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2016 no ...
E. Angelakis
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Serological differentiation of antibodies against Rickettsia helvetica, R. raoultii, R. slovaca, R. monacensis and R. felis in dogs from Germany by a micro-immunofluorescent antibody test [PDF]
, 2015 Background Spotted Fever Group (SFG) Rickettsiae can cause febrile diseases with or without rash in humans worldwide. In Germany only limited data are available about their medical significance.
Miriam Wächter +7 more
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Cat fleas (Ctenocephalides felis clade 'Sydney') are dominant fleas on dogs and cats in New South Wales, Australia: Presence of flea-borne Rickettsia felis, Bartonella spp. but absence of Coxiella burnetii DNA. [PDF]
Curr Res Parasitol Vector Borne Dis, 2021 Huang HHH +5 more
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Molecular identification of Bartonella spp. and Rickettsia felis in fox fleas, Chile. [PDF]
Comparative Immunology, Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, 2023 Seventy-five flea pools (one to ten fleas per pool) from 51 Andean foxes (Lycalopex culpaeus) and five South American grey foxes or chillas (Lycalopex griseus) from the Mediterranean region of Chile were analyzed for the presence of DNA of Bartonella spp.
J. Millán +7 more
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