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Dual Infection with Ehrlichia chaffeensis and a Spotted Fever Group Rickettsia: A Case Report
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 1998 Well-documented cases of simultaneous human infection with more than one tick-borne pathogen are rare. To our knowledge only two dual infections have been reported: simultaneous human infection with the agent of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis and ...
Daniel J. Sexton +12 more
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Molecular pathogenesis of Rocky Mountain spotted fever: a brief review
IMC Journal of Medical Science, 2021 Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) is a bacterial infection caused by Rickettsia, a diverse group of small Gram-negative rod-shaped α-proteobacteria, and obligates intracellular pathogens, which are free-living in hosts' cell cytoplasm and are ...
Peter Uteh Upla +4 more
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Experimental infection of dogs with a brazilian strain of Rickettsia rickettsii: clinical and laboratory findings [PDF]
, 2008 The bacterium Rickettsia rickettsii is the etiological agent of an acute, severe disease called Rocky Mountain spotted fever in the United States or Brazilian spotted fever (BSF) in Brazil.
FACCINI, João Luiz Horácio +6 more
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Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in Dogs, Brazil
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2009 Clinical illness caused by Rickettsia rickettsii in dogs has been reported solely in the United States. We report 2 natural clinical cases of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in dogs in Brazil. Each case was confirmed by seroconversion and molecular analysis
Marcelo B. Labruna +4 more
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Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2014 Rocky Mountain spotted fever is endemic to the São Paulo metropolitan area, Brazil, where the etiologic agent, Rickettsia rickettsii, is transmitted to humans by adult Amblyomma aureolatum ticks.
Danilo G. Saraiva +3 more
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Rickettsia rickettsii Co-feeding Transmission among Amblyomma aureolatum Ticks
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2018 Amblyomma aureolatum ticks are vectors of Rickettsia rickettsii, the etiologic agent of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in Brazil. Maintenance of R. rickettsii in nature depends on horizontal transmission along tick generations.
Jonas Moraes-Filho +4 more
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A case of rocky mountain spotted fever without eschar as a cause of pyrexia with multiple organ failure [PDF]
, 2017 Rocky mountain spotted fever (RMSF) is a rickettsia disease frequently reported from North America and Europe and transmitted by tick bite. This disease is very rare in India and other parts of South East Asia.
Balakrishnaa, Arjun M. +4 more
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Geospatial Analysis of Rickettsial Species [PDF]
, 2019 Rickettsia species are obligate intracellular, arthropod-borne bacteria with a potential to cause multiple diseases including Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF).
Frank, Amy
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Tropical Medicine and Infectious DiseaseTicks are vectors of public health concern because the pathogens they transmit can cause detrimental diseases in humans. Lyme disease, tick-borne relapsing fever, human granulocytic anaplasmosis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tick-borne encephalitis ...
Michael W. Curtis, Job E. Lopez
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Rickettsia rickettsii Transmission by a Lone Star Tick, North Carolina
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2011 Only indirect or circumstantial evidence has been published to support transmission of Rickettsia rickettsii by Amblyomma americanum (lone star) ticks in North America. This study provides molecular evidence that A.
Edward B. Breitschwerdt +5 more
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