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Surveillance of Mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae) in a Northern Central Region of Spain: Implications for the Medical Community

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2019
Mosquitoes are important to public and animal health due to their capacity to transmit diseases. Since the Zika virus was declared a pandemic by the WHO in 2016, and it has been recorded in different regions of Mediterranean Area (included Spain), the ...
Ignacio Ruiz-Arrondo, Barry J. McMahon, Luis M. Hernández-Triana, Paula Santibañez, Aránzazu Portillo, José Antonio Oteo   +5 more
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Rare Case of Rickettsiosis Caused by Rickettsia monacensis, Portugal, 2021

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2022
We report a case of rickettsiosis caused by Rickettsia monacensis in an immunocompetent 67-year-old man in Portugal who had eschar, erythematous rash, and an attached Ixodes ricinus tick.
Rita de Sousa, Marta Leal dos Santos, Claudina Cruz, Vasco Almeida, Ana Raquel Garrote, Freddy Ramirez, Diana Seixas, Maria J. Manata, Fernando Maltez   +8 more
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Flinders Island spotted fever rickettsioses caused by "marmionii" strain of rickettsia honei, Eastern Australia [PDF]

, 2007
Australia has 4 rickettsial diseases: murine typhus, Queensland tick typhus, Flinders Island spotted fever, and scrub typhus. We describe 7 cases of a rickettsiosis with an acute onset and symptoms of fever (100%), headache (71%), arthralgia (43 ...
Boutlis, Craig S., Cox, G. Erika, Dyer, John R., Faa, Antony G., Graves, Stephen R., Lane, Amanda M., Nissen, Michael D., Robson, Jennifer, Shaw, Matthew D., Stenos, John, Unsworth, Nathan B.   +10 more
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Rickettsia typhi as Cause of Fatal Encephalitic Typhus in Hospitalized Patients, Hamburg, Germany, 1940–1944

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2018
We evaluated formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue specimens from 7 patients who died with encephalitic typhus in Hamburg, Germany, during World War II.
Jessica Rauch, Birgit Muntau, Petra Eggert, Dennis Tappe   +3 more
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Emerging tick-borne infections in mainland China: an increasing public health threat [PDF]

, 2015
Since the beginning of the 1980s, 33 emerging tick-borne agents have been identified in mainland China, including eight species of spotted fever group rickettsiae, seven species in the family Anaplasmataceae, six genospecies in the complex Borrelia ...
Cao, Wu-Chun, Chen, Wan-Jun, Fang, Li-Qun, Gray, Gregory C., Jiang, Jia-Fu, Krause, Peter J., Li, Hao, Li, Xin-Lou, Liang, Song, Liu, Kun, Liu, Wei, Ma, Mai-Juan, Sun, Ruo-Xi, Sun, Ye, Yang, X. Frank, Yang, Yang, Yao, Hong-Wu, Zuo, Shu-Qing   +17 more
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Underdiagnosis of Rickettsiosis in Primary Health Care Facilities: A Cross-sectional Study in Jakarta, Indonesia

Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance
AIM: To establish the rate of rickettsiosis among patients presenting acute febrile illnesses at primary healthcare facilities in Jakarta, Indonesia. BACKGROUND: Rickettsiosis is a major public health problem in Indonesia.
Aiman Idrus Alatas, Delly Chipta Lestari, Khie Chen Lie, Dewi Lokida, Suratno Lulut Ratnoglik   +4 more
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Molecular detection of tick-borne pathogen diversities in ticks from livestock and reptiles along the shores and adjacent islands of lake Victoria and lake Baringo, Kenya [PDF]

, 2017
Tick-borne pathogens (TBPs) are responsible for some of the most serious emerging infectious diseases facing sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and the rest of the world today (1, 2).
Ajamma, Allsopp, Altschul, Andoh, Bengis, Burgdorfer, Burridge, Collins, Cook, Crowder, Crump, Dantas-Torres, Daszak, de la Fuente, De Sousa, Drummond, Dunster, Fyumagwa, Ghai, Gortazar, Gubbels, Guindon, Hess, Homewood, Horak, Hornok, Kamani, Kariuki, Katoh, Kearse, Kelly, Kiara, Kipkorir, Kock, Kumsa, Latif, Latif, Lwande, Machado-Ferreira, Maina, Maina, Mati, Matsumoto, Maxwell, Mediannikov, Miller, Minakawa, Mokrani, Morzaria, Moumouni, Mukhebi, Mwamuye, Ngumi, Njiiri, Norval, Nowak, Olwoch, Omondi, Onchuru, Oura, Parola, Parola, Punyua, Rosenstein, Rubaire-Akiiki, Saitou, Sang, Sang, Thumbi, Tigoi, Tijsse-Klassen, Tokarz, Trout Fryxell, Uilenberg, Walker, Walker, Walker, Walker, Wanzala, Wanzala, Wen, Wesonga, Wesonga, Whiley, Wiethoelter, Zhu   +85 more
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Characterization of the Hemagglutinin Gene of Morbillivirus canis in Domestic Dogs from the Mid-Western Area of Brazil

Veterinary Sciences
Canine distemper virus (CDV) is a serious and often fatal disease caused by Morbillivirus canis, which affects domestic dogs and wild carnivores, with case-fatality rates reaching up to 47%.
Mayara Lima Kavasaki, Aneliza de Oliveira Souza, Amanda Noeli da Silva Campos, Isis Indaiara Gonçalves Granjeiro Taques, Rachel Vieira Paes de Barros, Sofia de Souza Pereira Gomes, Nathalia Assis Pereira, Tayane Bruna Soares Magalhães, Edson Viana Massoli Junior, Lucas Avelino D. Pavelegini, Luiz Donizete Campeiro Junior, Bruno Gomes de Castro, Michele Lunardi, Daniel Moura de Aguiar   +13 more
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Development of a duplex real-time PCR for the detection of Rickettsia spp. and typhus group rickettsia in clinical samples. [PDF]

, 2011
Molecular diagnosis using real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) may allow earlier diagnosis of rickettsiosis. We developed a duplex real-time PCR that amplifies (1) DNA of any rickettsial species and (2) DNA of both typhus group rickettsia, that is ...
Cometta, A., Giulieri, S., Greub, G., Jaton, K., Trellu, L.T.   +4 more
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Prevalence and risk factors for murine typhus, scrub typhus and spotted fever group rickettsioses among adolescent and adult patients presenting to Yangon General Hospital, Yangon, Myanmar

Tropical Medicine &International Health, Volume 30, Issue 9, Page 966-977, September 2025.
Abstract Objectives To inform patient management and disease prevention, we sought to estimate the prevalence of, and identify risk factors for, scrub typhus, murine typhus, and spotted fever group rickettsioses (SFGR) among febrile patients presenting to hospital in Myanmar.
Thomas R. Bowhay, Tin Ohn Myat, Win Thandar Oo, Hla Kye Mone, Katrina J. Sharples, Matthew T. Robinson, Mayfong Mayxay, Paul N. Newton, Stuart D. Blacksell, Ampai Tanganuchitcharnchai, James E. Ussher, David R. Murdoch, Wah Win Htike, John A. Crump   +13 more
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