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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Rickettsia parkeri in Dermacentor parumapertus Ticks, Mexico
During a study to identify zoonotic pathogens in northwestern Mexico, we detected the presence of a rickettsial agent in Dermacentor parumapertus ticks from black-tailed jackrabbits (Lepus californicus).
Sokani Sánchez-Montes+10 more
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Ticks (ixodida) and mites (mesostigmata) parasites of sigmodontine rodents in the Delta of Paraná river, Argentina. [PDF]
Se determinaron las especies de garrapatas y ácaros mesostigmata parásitos de roedores sigmodontinos en una localidad del Delta del Paraná. Fueron registradas 38 asociaciones parásito-hospedador entre dos especies de garrapatas y cinco especies de ácaros
Antoniazzi, Leandro Raúl+6 more
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Use of doxycycline in modern clinical practice
The review continues the publication series devoted to well-known "classical" antimicrobial drugs the application of which in clinical practice takes on a new meaning in light of the striving to limit the globally increasing resistance of infectious ...
R. S. Kozlov, A. V. Golub
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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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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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REVISITING ANTHROPOZOONOSES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN BASIN. A SINGLE-CENTRE PERSPECTIVE. A SOUTHERN ITALIAN EXPERIENCE [PDF]
Zoonoses, often better defined with the term anthropozoonoses, are diseases that can be transmitted to humans either by direct contact with animals or through arthropod vector intervention.
Caputo, V.+5 more
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A Metabolic Dependency for Host Isoprenoids in the Obligate Intracellular Pathogen Rickettsia parkeri Underlies a Sensitivity to the Statin Class of Host-Targeted Therapeutics. [PDF]
Gram-negative bacteria in the order Rickettsiales have an obligate intracellular growth requirement, and some species cause human diseases such as typhus and spotted fever.
Ahyong, Vida+4 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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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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