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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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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 Underrecognized Cause of Hospitalization for Febrile Illness, Uganda [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases
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, Sultanah Alharthi, Andrés F. Londoño, Abdullah Wailagala, Yukari C. Manabe, J. Stephen Dumler   +5 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 Health
ABSTRACT 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 ...
Torres-Bustamante M, Cantillo-Barraza O, Ko AI, Wunder EA, Quintero-Vélez JC.   +4 more
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Beyond the Kidney and Lung: Cutaneous and Mucosal Clues to Human Hantavirus Disease. [PDF]

Int J Dermatol
Rodent exposure and aerosolized excreta can lead to hantavirus infection with systemic endothelial injury and capillary leak, resulting in thrombocytopenia and syndromes such as HPS/HCPS and HFRS/NE. Early dermatologic and mucosal findings, including flushing, conjunctival injection, petechiae/purpura, and mucosal bleeding, may provide important clues ...
Gallo G, Quaglino P, Ribero S.
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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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Unsuspected Rickettsioses among Patients with Acute Febrile Illness, Sri Lanka, 2007

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2012
We studied rickettsioses in southern Sri Lanka. Of 883 febrile patients with paired serum samples, 156 (17.7%) had acute rickettsioses; rickettsioses were unsuspected at presentation.
Megan E. Reller, Champica Bodinayake, Ajith Nagahawatte, Vasantha Devasiri, Wasantha Kodikara-Arachichi, John J. Strouse, Judith E. Flom, Truls Østbye, Christopher W. Woods, J. Stephen Dumler   +9 more
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Rickettsial infections: Past and present perspectives

APIK Journal of Internal Medicine, 2020
Rickettsial infections are reported from various parts of India. But despite the surging number of cases, these diseases are often under-diagnosed. Rickettsial diseases have re-emerged as some of the most covert infections of the present time.
Vasantha Kamath, Shreyashi Ganguly, Jasmine Kaur Bhatia, R Himabindu   +3 more
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Rickettsioses in Sri Lanka – A mini review

Sri Lankan Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2019
Rickettsioses are a group of vector-borne diseases that have come to the limelight in Sri Lanka during the last two decades. Evidence for spotted fever group rickettsioses, scrub typhus and other related diseases have been reported from Sri Lanka in a ...
Veranja Liyanapathirana
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