Tropism and pathogenicity of rickettsiae [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2012 Rickettsiae are obligate intracellular parasitic bacteria that cause febrile exanthematous illnesses such as Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Mediterranean spotted fever, epidemic and murine typhus, etc. Although the vector ranges of each Rickettsia species
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Ticks and Associated Rickettsiae from Domestic Animals in Bhutan [PDF]
PathogensIn Bhutan, information on rickettsiae is limited to a few epidemiological studies. There is no information on ticks and tick-associated rickettsiae.
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Ecological niche and rickettsial risk mapping of Dermacentor nuttalli in Inner Mongolia, China [PDF]
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection MicrobiologyIntroductionDermacentor nuttalli is the most prevalent and impactful tick species in Inner Mongolia, and serves as an important vector for a variety of pathogenic microorganisms.MethodsIn this study, an optimized ecological niche model was used to ...
Dan Liu +19 more
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Eco-Epidemiological Study of Seropositivity Against Rickettsia and Leptospira Agents in Rural Areas of Urabá, Colombia. [PDF]
Trop Med Int HealthABSTRACT Introduction Rickettsioses and leptospirosis are infectious diseases often underdiagnosed due to limited knowledge about their epidemiology, pathophysiology, and clinical aspects. Objectives To characterize the seroprevalence and seroincidence of Rickettsia and Leptospira agents and determine their associated factors in rural areas of Urabá ...
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Spotted fever group rickettsiae associated with ixodid ticks in wild environment in Southern Italy
MicrobiologyOpen, 2018 Ixodidae ticks are vectors and reservoirs of several species of rickettsiae, and tick‐borne rickettsioses are reported worldwide. This study was aimed to verify the distribution of spotted fever group rickettsiae associated with ticks in a wild ...
Nicola Pugliese +2 more
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Vaccine Design and Vaccination Strategies against Rickettsiae
Vaccines, 2021 Rickettsioses are febrile, potentially lethal infectious diseases that are a serious health threat, especially in poor income countries. The causative agents are small obligate intracellular bacteria, rickettsiae.
Anke Osterloh
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Surveillance of vector-borne infections: Dogs as sentinel animals for Orientia and Rickettsia exposure in five regions in Chile [PDF]
One HealthDomestic dogs have been proposed as sentinels for various infectious diseases, including rickettsial infections. In Chile, the only endemic human rickettsiosis is scrub typhus caused by Candidatus Orientia chiloensis, an emerging infectious disease ...
Paulina López-Silva +7 more
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GroEL is an immunodominant surface-exposed antigen of Rickettsia typhi.
PLoS ONE, 2021 Rickettsioses are neglected and emerging potentially fatal febrile diseases that are caused by obligate intracellular bacteria, rickettsiae. Rickettsia (R.) typhi and R.
Jessica Rauch +16 more
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Plasmids and rickettsial evolution: insight from Rickettsia felis. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2007 The genome sequence of Rickettsia felis revealed a number of rickettsial genetic anomalies that likely contribute not only to a large genome size relative to other rickettsiae, but also to phenotypic oddities that have confounded the categorization of R.
Joseph J Gillespie +7 more
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Black holes”, “Genome fluidity”, and Evolution of Bacterial Species [PDF]
Reviews in Clinical Medicine, 2022 The formation of the massive deletion of genes called “black holes,” which are detrimental to a pathogenic lifestyle, provides a bacterial evolutionary route that permits a pathogen to augment virulence and host-adaptability.
Kobra Salimiyan Rizi, Hadi Farsiani
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