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Israeli Spotted Fever, Tunisia [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2011
To the Editor: Mediterranean spotted fever (MSF) caused by Rickettsia conorii was the first rickettsiosis described in Tunisia. R. conorii was thought to be the only species existing in this country. However, authors reported other rickettsioses either from spotted fever group or typhus group (1,2). In Sfax, a town in southern Tunisia, physicians noted
Abir Znazen, Boussayma Hammami, Dorra Lahiani, Mounir Ben Jemaa, Adnene Hammami   +4 more
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Spotted fever rickettsiosis presenting with bilateral anterior uveitis and retinitis: A case report

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2020
Spotted fever is a common rickettsial disease in India. It is caused by Rickettsia conorii, which demonstrates vascular tropism and causes endothelial injury. Ocular manifestations include multifocal retinitis and disc edema.
Sohini Das, George A Ninan, Smitha Jasper, Minu George, Ramya Iyadurai   +4 more
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Geographic shift of Japanese spotted fever and diagnostic overshadowing by COVID-19 testing: A genetically confirmed northernmost case. [PDF]

IDCases
Hara H, Kamiyama J, Kondo R, Furuya S, Taguchi S, Shibue Y, Ogawa M, Hashimoto Y, Kikuchi K, Kiyota K.   +9 more
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Molecular detection and characterization of spotted fever group <i>Rickettsia</i> and <i>Anaplasma</i> in ticks from Pakistan. [PDF]

Parasitology
Sadia Salim K, Haroon A, Khoo BS, Kipp EJ, Ali A, Sassera D, Aziz MU, Oliver JD.   +7 more
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Diagnostic Value of IgA Antibody Measurement in Tick-Borne Spotted Fever (Astrakhan Rickettsial Fever)

Microbiology Spectrum, 2022
Tick-borne spotted fevers caused by Rickettsia occur worldwide. The symptoms of this bacterial infection are similar to those of viral infection, and thus, diagnostic accuracy has special clinical importance.
Nina S. Smirnova, Alexey V. Kostarnoy, Alexey V. Kondratev, Petya G. Gancheva, Daniil A. Grumov, Alexander L. Gintsburg   +5 more
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Purpura fulminans and spotted fever: A case series from South India

Journal of Global Infectious Diseases, 2022
Purpura fulminans (PF) is associated with acute infections such as meningococcal, staphylococcal, streptococcal, and rickettsial infections. However, there are only a few reports of association of PF with rickettsial fever from India. In this case series
Karthik Gunasekaran, Divyaa Elangovan, Susmitha Perumalla, Kundavaram Paul Prabhakar Abhilash, John Antony Jude Prakash   +4 more
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Spotted Fever and Typhus Group Rickettsiae in Dogs and Humans, Mexico, 2022

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2023
We found serologic evidence of spotted fever group Rickettsia in humans and dogs and typhus group Rickettsia in dogs in Reynosa, Mexico. Our investigation revealed serologic samples reactive to spotted fever group Rickettsia in 5 community members ...
Ricardo Palacios-Santana, Lihua Wei, Nadia A. Fernandez-Santos, Mario A. Rodriguez-Perez, Sergio Uriegas-Camargo, Nicole L. Mendell, Donald H. Bouyer, Jose Guillermo Estrada-Franco   +7 more
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Rickettsia slovaca “spotted fever”

JAAD Case Reports, 2023
Pascal Del Giudice, MD, Mathieu Reverte, MD, Christian Boissy, MD, Pierre Edouard Fournier, MD, PHD   +3 more
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Clinical Forms of Japanese Spotted Fever from Case-Series Study, Zigui County, Hubei Province, China, 2021

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2023
We report a case-series study of 5 patients with Japanese spotted fever from the Three Gorges Area in China, including 1 fatal case. Seroprevalence of Rickettsia japonica was ≈21% among the local population.
Zhongqiu Teng, Ping Gong, Wen Wang, Na Zhao, Xiaojing Jin, Xiangrong Sun, Haijian Zhou, Junlin Lu, Xuebing Lin, Bohai Wen, Biao Kan, Jianguo Xu, Tian Qin   +12 more
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Isolation of Rickettsia rickettsii in Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Outbreak, Panama

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2021
We report new cases of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in patients from Kinkantu, Ngäbe-Bugle indigenous comarca, Panama. We isolated Rickettsia rickettsii in cell culture after intraperitoneal inoculation of guinea pigs with tissues from a deceased patient.
Yamitzel Zaldívar, Michelle Hernández, Lillian Domínguez, Lisseth Saénz, Santiago Montilla, Maria E. Barnett de Antinori, Felipe S. Krawczak, Sergio Bermúdez   +7 more
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