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Laboratory Diagnostics of Rickettsia Infections in Denmark 2008–2015 [PDF]
Biology, 2020 Rickettsiosis is a vector-borne disease caused by bacterial species in the genus Rickettsia. Ticks in Scandinavia are reported to be infected with Rickettsia, yet only a few Scandinavian human cases are described, and rickettsiosis is poorly understood ...
Susanne Schjørring +7 more
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Rickettsia felis Infections, New Zealand
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.
Mei Yin Lim +5 more
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Endosymbiont Infections in Korean Insects: Patterns Across Orders and Habitat Types [PDF]
InsectsEndosymbiotic bacteria influence the ecology and evolution of insects through complex associations within host cells. To explore how these relationships vary among environments and taxa, we examined 1028 insect specimens from 14 orders across Korea for ...
Jae-Yeon Kang +5 more
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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.
Diana Chinchilla +4 more
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A rickettsia infection from Saudi Arabia [PDF]
International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2020 We here present a young patient who developed fever, headache, maculopapular skin rash and an eschar 3 days following a tick bite. Serology for Rickettsia was consistent with acute spotted fever group (SFG) infection.
Fatehi E. Elzein +4 more
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Human Infections with Rickettsia raoultii, China
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2014 We used molecular methods to identify Rickettsia raoultii infections in 2 persons in China. These persons had localized rashes around sites of tick bites. R.
Na Jia +9 more
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Human Rickettsia felis infections in Mainland China
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 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.
Zhongqiu Teng +7 more
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Microorganisms, 2021 Tick-borne Rickettsia pathogens have become an emerging source of zoonotic infections and have a major impact on human health worldwide. In this study, the prevalence and genetic identity of Rickettsia infections in Ixodes granulatus ticks was firstly ...
Chien-Ming Shih +2 more
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Tick-Borne Pathogens in Ticks Collected from Wild Ungulates in North-Eastern Poland
Pathogens, 2021 This study was carried out in north-eastern Poland during two hunting seasons between 2018 and 2020. Ticks (Ixodes ricinus and Dermacentor reticulatus) were removed from wild cervids and boars and examined for the presence of Borrelia spirochetes and ...
Mirosław M. Michalski +3 more
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BMC Veterinary Research, 2021 Background Pet dogs are important companion animals that share the environment within households, and play an important role in local community life. In addition, pet dogs also are reservoirs of zoonotic agents, including Rickettsia spp., thus increasing
Jian-Wei Shao +6 more
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