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Rickettsia prowazekii and Real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2006 Rickettsia prowazekii is the causative agent of epidemic typhus and a potential bioterrorism agent. Sensitive and specific rapid assays are needed to complement existing methods of detecting this organism. We developed a real-time quantitative polymerase
Sanela Svraka +4 more
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Mapping the Rickettsia prowazekii genome
, 1998 Rickettsia prowazekii is a member of alpha proteobacteria and the etiologic agent of epidemictyphus. Besides its pathogenicity as an obligate intracellular parasite it has been considered as amodel organism in a variety of studies.We have established a ...
Zomorodipour, Alireza,
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UNUSUAL ORGANIZATION OF THE RIBOSOMAL-RNA GENES IN RICKETTSIA-PROWAZEKII
, 1995 We describe here the organization of the rRNA genes in Rickettsia prowazekii. In this organism, the 23S and the 5S rRNA genes are tightly linked to each other, whereas the 16S rRNA gene is separated from this cluster.
ZOMORODIPOUR, A, +3 more
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Rickettsioses in Latin America, Caribbean, Spain and Portugal [PDF]
Revista Mvz Cordoba, 2011 Data on genus and infectious by Rickettsia were retrospectively compiled from the critical review literature regarding all countries in Latin America, Caribbean islands, Portugal and Spain.
Marcelo B. Labruna +9 more
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Renewed Risk for Epidemic Typhus Related to War and Massive Population Displacement, Ukraine
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2022 Epidemic typhus, caused by Rickettsia prowazekii bacteria and transmitted through body lice (Pediculus humanus corporis), was a major public health threat in Eastern Europe as a consequence of World War II.
Paul N. Newton +3 more
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Genetic typing of isolates of Rickettsia typhi.
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2022 Murine typhus, which is caused by Rickettsia typhi, has a wide range of clinical manifestations. It has a low mortality rate but may result in meningoencephalitis and interstitial pneumonia in severe cases.
Cecilia Y Kato +4 more
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Inactivation of SAM-methyltransferase is the mechanism of attenuation of a historic louse borne typhus vaccine strain. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Louse borne typhus (also called epidemic typhus) was one of man's major scourges, and epidemics of the disease can be reignited when social, economic, or political systems are disrupted.
Yan Liu +4 more
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Jail Fever (Epidemic Typhus) Outbreak in Burundi
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 1997 We recently investigated a suspected outbreak of epidemic typhus in a jail in Burundi. We tested sera of nine patients by microimmunofluorescence for antibodies to Rickettsia prowazekii and Rickettsia typhi. We also amplified and sequenced from lice gene
D. Raoult +6 more
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Infectious disease in the Pleistocene: Old friends or old foes?
American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 182, Issue 4, Page 513-531, December 2023., 2023 Sources of evidence for studying infectious diseases of humans and other Pleistocene hominins. From top to bottom: DNA analysis of humans and hominins, modern and ancient, including the analysis of genomes at a population scale; palaeopathology, such as osteolytic skeletal lesions resulting from infection, and the study of mummified tissues or palaeo ...
Charlotte J. Houldcroft, Simon Underdown
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Novel rickettsia in ticks, Tasmania, Australia [PDF]
, 2009 A novel rickettsia was detected in Ixodes tasmani ticks collected from Tasmanian devils. A total of 55% were positive for the citrate synthase gene by quantitative PCR.
Nathan Unsworth +11 more
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