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Seroprevalence of Hantavirus among Manual Cane Cutters and Epidemiological Aspects of HPS in Central Brazil

Viruses, 2023
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) is a rodent-borne zoonotic disease that is endemic throughout the Americas. Agricultural activities increase exposure to wild rodents, especially for sugarcane cutters.
Renata Malachini Maia, Jorlan Fernandes, Luciana Helena Bassan Vicente de Mattos, Luiz Antonio Bastos Camacho, Karlla Antonieta Amorim Caetano, Megmar Aparecida dos Santos Carneiro, Fernando de Oliveira Santos, Sheila Araujo Teles, Elba Regina Sampaio de Lemos, Renata Carvalho de Oliveira   +9 more
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Exotic Rickettsiae in Ixodes ricinus: fact or artifact? [PDF]

, 2010
Several pathogenic Rickettsia species can be transmitted via Ixodes ricinus ticks to humans and animals. Surveys of I. ricinus for the presence of Rickettsiae using part of its 16S rRNA gene yield a plethora of new and different Rickettsia sequences ...
Fonville, M., Overbeek, L.S., van, Reimerink, J.H.J., Sprong, H., Tijsse-Klasen, E.   +4 more
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Rickettsia mongolotimonae: A Rare Pathogen in France

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2000
We report a second case of laboratory-confirmed infection caused by Rickettsia mongolotimonae in Marseille, France. This rickettsiosis may represent a new clinical entity; moreover, its geographic distribution may be broader than previously documented ...
Pierre-Edouard Fournier, Hervé Tissot-Dupont, Hervé Gallais, Didier Raoult   +3 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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Characterization of rickettsia rickettsii in a case of Fatal Brazilian spotted fever in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
A lethal case of Brazilian spotted fever (BSF) is presented. Clinical features were initially of gastrointestinal involvement and evolved with progression to septic shock, meningoencephalitis and death on the 6th day of illness.
Cristiane Lamas, Alexsandra Favacho, Tatiana Rozental, Márcio N. Bóia, Andrei H. Kirsten, Alexandro Guterres, Jairo Barreira, Elba Regina S. de Lemos   +7 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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Rickettsia parkeri Rickettsiosis, Argentina

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2011
Rickettsia parkeri, a recently identified cause of spotted fever rickettsiosis in the United States, has been found in Amblyomma triste ticks in several countries of South America, including Argentina, where it is believed to cause disease in humans. We describe the clinical and epidemiologic characteristics of 2 patients in Argentina with confirmed R.
Favio Crudo, R. Ryan Lash, Andrea S. Varela-Stokes, Christopher D. Paddock, Alfredo Seijo, Yamila Romer, William L. Nicholson   +6 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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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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