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Rickettsioses Seropositivity in Malaysia: A Six-Year Trend, 2016–2021 [PDF]

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease
Background: Rickettsioses are diseases caused by obligate intracellular non-motile coccobacilli transmitted via arthropods. The most common rickettsioses are scrub typhus (ST), typhus group rickettsioses (TGR), and spotted fever group rickettsioses (SFGR)
Bee Yong Tay, Fashihah Sherina Abdul Hadi Sabri, Zamtira Seman, Norlela Othman, Haida Subakir, Zahrul Laili Abd Hadi, Adilahtul Bushro Zaini, Norli Anida Abdullah, Nur Anisah Mohamed, Mohammad Yazid Abdad, Siti Roszilawati Ramli   +10 more
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Prevalence and risk factors for murine typhus, scrub typhus and spotted fever group rickettsioses among adolescent and adult patients presenting to Yangon General Hospital, Yangon, Myanmar. [PDF]

Trop Med Int Health
To inform patient management and disease prevention, we sought to estimate the prevalence of, and identify risk factors for, scrub typhus, murine typhus, and spotted fever group rickettsioses (SFGR) among febrile patients presenting to hospital in ...
Bowhay TR, Myat TO, Oo WT, Mone HK, Sharples KJ, Robinson MT, Mayxay M, Newton PN, Blacksell SD, Tanganuchitcharnchai A, Ussher JE, Murdoch DR, Htike WW, Crump JA.   +13 more
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Spotted Fever Group Rickettsioses among Hospitalized Patients and Circulation of Rickettsia in Ticks, Kazakhstan, 2019. [PDF]

Emerg Infect Dis
Testing for spotted fever group rickettsioses (SFGR) and the criteria for identifying suspected patients are not routinely used in Kazakhstan. In 2019, we performed a cross-sectional study in 6 sentinel hospitals in the Pavlodar region.
Bumburidi YV, Berezovskiy DV, Zhakipbayeva BT, Horth RZ, Millman AJ, Nicholson WL, Zemtsova GE, Seffren V, Maltseva ER, Berdygulova ZA, Ostapchuk YO, Perfilyeva YV, Dmitrovskiy AM, Dukayeva ZK, Shapiyeva ZZ.   +14 more
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Clinico-epidemiological and immunological characteristics of rickettsioses in a Sri Lankan patient cohort 2018-2023. [PDF]

BMC Infect Dis
Rickettsioses, caused by intracellular bacteria of the genera Rickettsia and Orientia, are transmitted to humans through arthropod vectors such as ticks, fleas, and mites. Over the past two decades, this disease has been recognized as a significant cause
Gunathilaka N, Chandrasena N, Sudusinghe H, Mudalpath VN, Jayakody D, Premaratna R.   +5 more
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Leptospirosis, melioidosis, and rickettsioses in the vicious circle of neglect. [PDF]

PLoS Negl Trop Dis
The global priorities in the field of infectious diseases are constantly changing. While emerging viral infections have regularly dominated public health attention, which has only intensified after the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous bacterial diseases have ...
Tshokey T, Ko AI, Currie BJ, Munoz-Zanzi C, Goarant C, Paris DH, Dance DAB, Limmathurotsakul D, Birnie E, Bertherat E, Gongal G, Benschop J, Savelkoel J, Stenos J, Saraswati K, Robinson MT, Day NPJ, Graves SR, Belmain SR, Blacksell SD, Wiersinga WJ.   +20 more
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Acute Rickettsiosis Triggering Plasmodium vivax Relapse in a Returned Traveler: A Case Report and Clinical Review of Travel-Related Coinfections [PDF]

Pathogens
Given the overlap of epidemiological and clinical presentations of both rickettsioses and malaria infections, diagnostic testing where malaria is confirmed or excluded, without subsequent rickettsial testing, specifically in the case of Plasmodium vivax ...
Ruchika Bagga, Charlotte Fuller, Kalsoom Shahzad, Ezra Bado, Judith Joshi, Dileesha Fernando, Amanda Hempel, Andrea K. Boggild   +7 more
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Clinical Manifestations, Risk Factors, and Disease Burden of Rickettsiosis, Cambodia, 2007–2020 [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases
During 2007–2020, we conducted a cross-sectional prevalence study among patients with acute undifferentiated febrile illness to describe the burden and long-term epidemiology of rickettsioses in Cambodia.
Gerard C. Kelly, Agus Rachmat, Long Khanh Tran, Chonthida Supaprom, Hip Phireak, Satharath Prom, Heng Sopheab, Nora Cleary, Michael von Fricken, Christina M. Farris, Andrew G. Letizia   +10 more
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Rickettsioses as Major Etiologies of Unrecognized Acute Febrile Illness, Sabah, East Malaysia

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2020
Orientia tsutsugamushi, spotted fever group rickettsioses, and typhus group rickettsioses (TGR) are reemerging causes of acute febrile illness (AFI) in Southeast Asia. To further delineate extent, we enrolled patients >4 weeks of age with nonmalarial AFI
Matthew J. Grigg, Timothy William, Emily G. Clemens, Kaajal Patel, Arjun Chandna, Christopher S. Wilkes, Bridget E. Barber, Nicholas M. Anstey, J. Stephen Dumler, Tsin W. Yeo, Megan E. Reller   +10 more
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Development of a rapid antigen-based lateral flow assay for tick-borne spotted fever rickettsioses. [PDF]

PLoS One
Tick-borne spotted fever rickettsioses (SFRs) continue to cause severe illness and death in otherwise-healthy individuals due to lack of a timely and reliable diagnostic laboratory test.
Willson R, Zhao Y, Brosamer K, Pal Y, Blanton LS, Arroyave E, Roach C, Walker DH, Kourentzi K, Fang R.   +9 more
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Spotted fever rickettsioses should be considered in the differential diagnosis of “Fever with Purpuric Rash” in Saudi Arabia: A Case report

Journal of Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery, 2022
There is a paucity of literature about human spotted fever rickettsioses (SFR) from the Arab Gulf Region, including Saudi Arabia. Here, we present an elderly Saudi man who had fever, headache, purpuric maculopapular skin rash, and an eschar.
Ahmed H Nassar, Abdullah S Abu-Aliat, Salim Jamil, Mohammed S Alshahrani, Soha A Hawwam, Esmat R Eid   +5 more
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