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Fatal Spotted Fever Rickettsiosis, Kenya
We report a fatal case of rickettsiosis in a woman from the United States living in Kenya, who had a history of tick exposure. Immunohistochemical staining of skin, kidney, and liver demonstrated spotted fever group rickettsiae. The clinical findings, severity, and fatal outcome are most consistent with Rickettsia conorii infection.
Jeremiah S. Rutherford +8 more
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Immunology of human rickettsial diseases. [PDF]
Among human rickettsial diseases caused by micro-organisms of the genus Rickettsia (Order Rickettsiales; Family Rickettsiaceae), transmitted to human hosts through arthropod vectors, Mediterranean Spotted Fever, or Boutonneuse Fever, and Rocky Mountain ...
ARCOLEO F +5 more
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Rickettsial diseases: ¿a public health problem in Latin America?
The epidemiologic parameters for a disease to be considered a public health problem are magnitude, vulnerability and transcendence. If you consider only magnitude and vulnerability based on incidence of rickettsial diseases in Latin America and in the ...
Márcio Antônio Moreira Galvão +1 more
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Duffy phenotype and plasmodium vivax infections in humans and Apes, Africa [PDF]
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Culleton, Richard Leighton +1 more
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Human Infection with Rickettsia sibirica mongolitimonae, Spain, 2007–2011
Human infection with Rickettsia sibirica mongolitimonae was initially reported in 1996, and reports of a total of 18 cases have been published. We describe 6 additional cases that occurred in the Mediterranean coast region of Spain during 2007–2011 ...
José M. Ramos +5 more
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AN UPDATE OF EPIDEMIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF RICKETTSIOSIS IN THE MEXICAN TROPIC
Background: Rickettsioses are diseases caused by Rickettsia bacteria, transmitted through tick or mite bites, or through contact with feces from lice or fleas.
Marco Torres-Castro +5 more
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The aim of the work was to compare the main socio-demographic and eco-epidemiological parameters of tick-borne viral encephalitis, tick-borne borrelioses and tick-borne rickettsiosis.Materials and methods.
O. V. Mel’nikova +3 more
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Rickettsia felis infection in cat fleas Ctenocephalides felis felis [PDF]
The present study evaluated the rickettsial infection in a laboratory colony of cat fleas, Ctenocephalides felis felis (Bouche) in Brazil. All flea samples (30 eggs, 30 larvae, 30 cocoons, 30 males, and 30 females) tested by polymerase chain reaction ...
CORREIA, Thaís R. +5 more
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Clinical and laboratorial evidence of Rickettsia felis infections in Latin America
After the discovery and initial characterization of Rickettsia felis in 1992 by Azad and cols, and the subsequent first description of a human case of infection in 1994, there have been two communications of human rickettsiosis cases caused by Rickettsia
Márcio Antônio Moreira Galvão +5 more
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Etiología del síndrome febril agudo en la provincia de Jaén, Perú 2004-2005
Objetivo: Conocer a tiología el Síndrome febril agudo en nacientes que acudieron a tres establecimientos de salud de la provincia de Jaén entre mayo de 2004 y abril de 2005.
Lucinda Troyes R +7 more
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