Rickettsioses Seropositivity in Malaysia: A Six-Year Trend, 2016–2021 [PDF]
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 +10 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]
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 +7 more
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Clinical Manifestations, Risk Factors, and Disease Burden of Rickettsiosis, Cambodia, 2007–2020 [PDF]
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 +10 more
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Prevalence of ‘Candidatus Rickettsia vini’ in Ixodes arboricola ticks in the North of Spain, 2011–2013 [PDF]
Background The prevalence of Rickettsia spp. in Ixodes arboricola ticks collected from birds in two locations in the North of Spain from 2011 to 2013 was studied. Findings The detection of the bacteria in 54 DNA extracts of I. arboricola was performed by
Ana M Palomar +5 more
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Rickettsioses as Underrecognized Cause of Hospitalization for Febrile Illness, Uganda [PDF]
The complexity of rickettsial serodiagnostics during acute illness has limited clinical characterization in Africa. We used archived samples from sepsis (n = 259) and acute febrile illness (n = 70) cohorts in Uganda to identify spotted fever and typhus ...
Paul W. Blair +5 more
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Imported rickettsioses in Italy
In Italy few cases of rickettsioses have been reported in travellers and autochthonous cases are attributed predominantly to Rickettsia conorii, the agent of Mediterranean spotted fever.The purpose of this study was to investigate some epidemiological and clinical features of tick-borne spotted fever group rickettsiosis acquired abroad or in Italy ...
Anna Beltrame +2 more
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A new spotted fever group Rickettsia genotype in Haemaphysalis leporispalustris from Maine, USA [PDF]
Spotted fever group (SFG) rickettsioses are increasingly recognized worldwide as threats to public health. Rickettsia rickettsii, Rickettsia parkeri, and Rickettsia rickettsii subspecies californica cause spotted fever rickettsioses, including Rocky ...
Guang Xu +5 more
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Etiology of Severe Non-malaria Febrile Illness in Northern Tanzania: A Prospective Cohort Study. [PDF]
The syndrome of fever is a commonly presenting complaint among persons seeking healthcare in low-resource areas, yet the public health community has not approached fever in a comprehensive manner.
AJ Bouley +52 more
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