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Fatal Spotted Fever Rickettsiosis, Kenya

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2004
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
openaire   +3 more sources

Immunology of human rickettsial diseases. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
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
core  

Rickettsial diseases: ¿a public health problem in Latin America?

open access: yesActa Médica Costarricense, 2013
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
doaj  

Human Infection with Rickettsia sibirica mongolitimonae, Spain, 2007–2011

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2013
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
doaj   +1 more source

AN UPDATE OF EPIDEMIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF RICKETTSIOSIS IN THE MEXICAN TROPIC

open access: yesTropical and Subtropical Agroecosystems
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
doaj   +1 more source

Socio-Demographic and Eco-Epidemiological Parameters of Tick-Borne Infections Morbidity in Baikal Region

open access: yesПроблемы особо опасных инфекций
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
doaj   +1 more source

Rickettsia felis infection in cat fleas Ctenocephalides felis felis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
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

open access: yesRevista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2004
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
doaj  

Etiología del síndrome febril agudo en la provincia de Jaén, Perú 2004-2005

open access: yesRevista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pública, 2006
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
doaj  

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