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Israeli Spotted Fever in Sicily. Description of two cases and minireview

open access: yesInternational Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2017
Mediterranean spotted fever (MSF) is endemic in Italy, where Rickettsia conorii subsp. conorii was thought to be the only pathogenic rickettsia and Rhipicephalus sanguineus the vector and main reservoir. R. conorii subsp.
Claudia Colomba   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fatal Brazilian Spotted Fever Associated with Dogs and Amblyomma aureolatum Ticks, Brazil, 2013

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2019
In São Paulo metropolitan area, Brazil, Amblyomma aureolatum ticks are the main vector of Rickettsia rickettsii, which causes Brazilian spotted fever.
Elisa S.M.M. Savani   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fatal Rickettsia conorii subsp. israelensis Infection, Israel

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2008
Underdiagnosis of fatal spotted fever may be attributed to nonspecific clinical features and insensitive acute-phase serologic studies. We describe the importance of molecular and immunohistochemical methods in establishing the postmortem diagnosis of ...
Miriam Weinberger   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Haemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis as a Complication of Israeli Spotted Fever

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 2022
Rickettsia spp. human infection is endemic in Portugal in the form of Mediterranean spotted fever caused by R. conorii subsp. conorii and Israeli spotted fever (ISF) caused by R. conorii subsp. israelensis.
Maria Margarida Andrade   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Outbreak of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in Córdoba, Colombia

open access: yesMemorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2011
Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) is a tick-borne disease caused by the obligate intracellular bacterium Rickettsia rickettsii. Although RMSF was first reported in Colombia in 1937, it remains a neglected disease.
Marylin Hidalgo   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Regulator of Actin-Based Motility (RoaM) Downregulates Actin Tail Formation by Rickettsia rickettsii and Is Negatively Selected in Mammalian Cell Culture

open access: yesmBio, 2022
The etiological agent of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Rickettsia rickettsii, is an obligately intracellular pathogen that induces the polymerization of actin filaments to propel the bacterium through the cytoplasm and spread to new host cells.
Adam M. Nock   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Epilepsy‐Associated Variants of a Single SCN1A Codon Exhibit Divergent Functional Properties

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Pathogenic variants in SCN1A, which encodes the voltage‐gated sodium channel NaV1.1, are associated with multiple epilepsy syndromes exhibiting a range of clinical severity. SCN1A variants are reported in different syndromes, including Dravet syndrome, which is associated with loss‐of‐function, whereas neonatal/infantile‐onset ...
Lanie N. Liebovitz   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

High Seroprevalence of Antibodies against Spotted Fever and Scrub Typhus Bacteria in Patients with Febrile Illness, Kenya

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2015
Serum samples from patients in Kenya with febrile illnesses were screened for antibodies against bacteria that cause spotted fever, typhus, and scrub typhus. Seroprevalence was 10% for spotted fever group,
Jacqueline W. Thiga   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Japanese Spotted Fever, South Korea

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2006
We describe the first case of Japanese spotted fever and the first isolate of spotted fever group rickettsia from a patient in South Korea. The isolated rickettsia from the patient was identified as Rickettsia japonica by analysis of the nucleotide ...
Moon-Hyun Chung   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Is an Apple an Orange? A Large Language Model Benchmark for Candidate Term Extraction and Subclass Decisions Against Upper Ontologies in Engineering and Materials Science

open access: yesAdvanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Building machine‐readable vocabularies for materials science is slow, expert‐driven work. This study benchmarks 13 large language models on two of its first steps: finding candidate terms in engineering articles and deciding where they belong in a class hierarchy.
Thomas Bjarsch   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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