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Deciphering the “Doxycycline Deficiency Syndrome”: Defining the Characteristic Clinical, Laboratory and Imaging Findings in Patients Presenting with Leptospirosis, Q Fever and Rickettsial Diseases in Far North Queensland, Tropical Australia [PDF]

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease
Background: The “doxycycline deficiency syndrome” is a colloquial term used in tropical Australia to describe the overlapping, non-specific findings seen in leptospirosis, Q fever, and the rickettsial diseases scrub typhus and Queensland tick typhus (QTT)
Hayley Stratton, Callum Pownell, Megan Sandeman, Patrick Rosengren, Cody Price, Alexandra G. A. Stewart, Roderick Gavey, Toni Kinneally, Kathy Petoumenos, Simon Smith, Josh Hanson   +10 more
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Human rickettsial infections in India - A review

Journal of Vector Borne Diseases
Rickettsial infections are emerging and/or re-emerging disease that poses a serious global threat to humans and animals. Transmission to humans and animals is through the bite of the ectoparasites including ticks, fleas and chigger mites.
J Pradeep, V Anitharaj, B Sangeetha
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Seroprevalence of rickettsial infections and Q fever in Bhutan. [PDF]

PLoS Negl Trop Dis, 2017
BackgroundWith few studies conducted to date, very little is known about the epidemiology of rickettsioses in Bhutan. Due to two previous outbreaks and increasing clinical cases, scrub typhus is better recognized than other rickettsial infections and Q ...
Tshokey T, Stenos J, Durrheim DN, Eastwood K, Nguyen C, Graves SR.   +5 more
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Rickettsial Infections Are Neglected Causes of Acute Febrile Illness in Teluk Intan, Peninsular Malaysia. [PDF]

Trop Med Infect Dis, 2022
Rickettsial infections are among the leading etiologies of acute febrile illness in Southeast Asia. However, recent data from Malaysia are limited. This prospective study was conducted in Teluk Intan, Peninsular Malaysia, during January to December 2016.
Yuhana MY, Hanboonkunupakarn B, Tanganuchitcharnchai A, Sujariyakul P, Sonthayanon P, Chotivanich K, Pukrittayakamee S, Blacksell SD, Paris DH.   +8 more
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Serological Evidence Supporting the Occurrence of Ehrlichia chaffeensis or a Closely Related Species in Brazilian Dogs

Pathogens, 2023
Ehrlichia chaffeensis is a tick-borne bacterium that causes human monocytotropic ehrlichiosis, an emerging life-threatening disease in humans transmitted by Amblyomma americanum. Although most studies have reported bacterial isolations and clinical cases
Isis Indaiara Gonçalves Granjeiro Taques, Andreia Lima Tomé Melo, Mauricio Claudio Horta, Nathalia Assis Pereira, Daniel Moura Aguiar   +4 more
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Geographic Distribution of Ehrlichia canis TRP Genotypes in Brazil

Veterinary Sciences, 2020
Tandem repeat proteins (TRPs) are major immunoreactive proteins of Ehrlichia canis, which have been used in the serological diagnosis of different genotypes of the microorganism. TRP19 is preserved among different E.
Isis Indaiara Gonçalves Granjeiro Taques, Amanda Noeli Silva Campos, Mayara Lima Kavasaki, Sayanne Luns Hatum de Almeida, Daniel Moura de Aguiar   +4 more
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Limits of rickettsial infectivity [PDF]

Infection and Immunity, 1978
Seven species of pathogenic rickettsiae were compared in five assay systems for group, species, strain, and phase differences in infectivity. The species examined include Rickettsia prowazekii (Breinl and Cairo 3 strains), R. typhi, R. canada, R. rickettsii (Sheila Smith and R strains), R. conorii, R. sibirica, and Coxiella burnetii in phases I and II.
R, Ormsbee, M, Peacock, R, Gerloff, G, Tallent, D, Wike   +4 more
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Serological evidence indicates widespread distribution of rickettsioses in Myanmar

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2021
Background: Little research has been published on the prevalence of rickettsial infections in Myanmar. This study determined the seroprevalence of immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies to rickettsial species in different regions of Myanmar.
Philip N.D. Elders, Myo Maung Maung Swe, Aung Pyae Phyo, Alistair R.D. McLean, Htet Naing Lin, Kyaw Soe, Wei Yan Aung Htay, Ampai Tanganuchitcharnchai, Thel K. Hla, Ni Ni Tun, Thin Thin Nwe, Myat Myat Moe, Win May Thein, Ni Ni Zaw, Wai Mon Kyaw, Htun Linn, Yin Yin Htwe, Frank M. Smithuis, Stuart D. Blacksell, Elizabeth A. Ashley   +19 more
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Rickettsial disease existence in India: resurgence in outbreaks with the advent of 20th century

Indian Journal of Health Sciences and Biomedical Research KLEU, 2020
Rickettsial infections are both one of the oldest and recently recognized reemerging zoonotic infections. Misdiagnosis and underreporting of rickettsial infections are significant public health problems leading to extensive investigations in patients ...
Abha Sharma, Bibhabati Mishra
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Diagnosis of a Fatal Rickettsial Infection in a 44-Year-Old Male [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2019
Rickettsial infections are an emerging public health concern in many parts of India with several undiagnosed or misdiagnosed cases. Despite its widespread prevalence in India, lack of suspicion, nonspecific signs and symptoms, and absence of widely ...
Yogesh Velaskar, Aparna Kotekar
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