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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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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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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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Clinical Features and Risk Factors for Severe Disease of Rickettsiosis: A Military Hospital-Based Study in Bangkok, Thailand

Journal of Southeast Asian Medical Research
Background: Rickettsiosis is Southeast Asia’s third leading cause of undifferentiated fever. Due to limited epidemiological data and nonspecific symptoms, diagnosing the disease is complex, leading to treatment challenges and complications.
Piyawan Oupkham, Worapong Nasomsong
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Interferon receptor-deficient mice are susceptible to eschar-associated rickettsiosis

bioRxiv, 2020
Rickettsia are arthropod-borne pathogens that cause severe human disease worldwide. The spotted fever group (SFG) pathogen Rickettsia parkeri elicits skin lesion (eschar) formation in humans after tick bite.
Thomas P. Burke, Patrik Engström, Cuong J. Tran, Dustin R. Glasner, Diego A. Espinosa, E. Harris, M. Welch   +6 more
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Rickettsiosis

, 2009
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Leptospirosis y rickettsiosis reto diagnóstico en zonas endémicas de síndrome febril: Reporte de un caso

, 2021
A case of a 50 years-old male, from the Uraba region, Colombia with Rickettsia rickettsii and Leptospira interrogans serovar Copenhageni ST78 mixed infection, with negative test for malaria and dengue fever is reported.
René Ramírez, J. Quintero, Aixa Paola Rosado, Margarita Arboleda, V. González, P. Agudelo-Flórez   +5 more
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Lyme Borreliosis with Scalp Eschar Mimicking Rickettsial Infection, Austria

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2020
We report on a patient in Austria with scalp eschar and neck lymphadenopathy. Rickettsial etiology was excluded by culture, PCR, and serologic tests. Borrelia afzelii was identified from the eschar swab by PCR.
Mateusz Markowicz, Anna-Margarita Schötta, Michiel Wijnveld, Gerold Stanek   +3 more
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SURVEY OF Rickettsia spp. IN TICKS IN NACOGDOCHES COUNTY, TEXAS [PDF]

, 2018
Rickettsia parkeri is an obligate intracellular pathogenic bacterium that is commonly transmitted by the Gulf Coast tick, Amblyomma maculatum. Rickettsia parkeri is the causative agent of Rickettsia parkeri rickettsiosis, which is a disease characterized
Blakley, Nathaniel
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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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