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Rickettsia typhi IN RODENTS AND R. felis IN FLEAS IN YUCATÁN AS A POSSIBLE CAUSAL AGENT OF UNDEFINED FEBRILE CASES [PDF]
Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2015 Rickettsia typhi is the causal agent of murine typhus; a worldwide zoonotic and vector-borne infectious disease, commonly associated with the presence of domestic and wild rodents.
Gaspar PENICHE-LARA +3 more
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Salud Pública de México, 2020 Objetivo. Determinar la presencia de Rickettsia typhi en Rhipicephalus sanguineus s.l. y Amblyomma mixtum, en el sur de México. Material y métodos. Las garrapatas fueron colectadas en humanos y animales domésticos.
Armando Ulloa-García +4 more
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Rickettsia typhi and R. felis in Rat Fleas (Xenopsylla cheopis), Oahu, Hawaii
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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Detección molecular de Rickettsia typhi en perros de una comunidad rural de Yucatán, México [PDF]
Biomédica: revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2016 Introducción. Rickettsia typhi es la bacteria causante del tifus múrido o endémico, el cual es transmitido al ser humano principalmente por medio de las heces infectadas de pulgas y en cuyo ciclo de infección se encuentran involucrados distintos animales
Daly Martínez-Ortiz +11 more
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Rickettsia typhi possesses phospholipase A2 enzymes that are involved in infection of host cells.
PLoS Pathogens, 2013 The long-standing proposal that phospholipase A2 (PLA2) enzymes are involved in rickettsial infection of host cells has been given support by the recent characterization of a patatin phospholipase (Pat2) with PLA2 activity from the pathogens Rickettsia ...
M Sayeedur Rahman +6 more
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Direct evidence of Rickettsia typhi infection in Rhipicephalus sanguineus ticks and their canine hosts [PDF]
Open Veterinary Journal, 2017 Murine typhus is a rickettsiosis caused by Rickettsia typhi, whose transmission is carried out by rat fleas in urban settlements as classically known, but it also has been related to cat fleas in a sub-urban alternative cycle that has been suggested by ...
Karla Dzul-Rosado +4 more
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Oral Flea Preventive to Control Rickettsia typhi–Infected Fleas on Reservoir Opossums, Galveston, Texas, USA, 2023–2024 [PDF]
Emerging Infectious DiseasesMurine typhus, a fleaborne bacterial disease caused by Rickettsia typhi, has reemerged and spread in the United States. We tested spinosad, an oral flea preventive, in opossum flea reservoirs. Spinosad killed 98% of fleas infesting opossums.
Lucas S. Blanton +1 more
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International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2014 We describe the case of a 75-year-old woman presenting with spotted fever followed by acute renal failure and septic shock. The infection was caused by Rickettsia typhi, not reported in Calabria district (southern Italy) since World War II. The diagnosis
Maria Cristina Caroleo +2 more
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The temporal dynamics of humoral immunity to Rickettsia typhi infection in murine typhus patients [PDF]
Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2020 Stuart Blacksell +2 more
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Microbiology Spectrum, 2023 The genus Rickettsia is comprised of obligate intracellular bacterial parasites of a wide range of arthropod and vertebrate hosts. Some Rickettsia species (spp.) are responsible for serious human diseases globally.
Oliver H. Voss +6 more
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