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With a surge in rickettsial infections in our country, there is an apparent necessity to upgrade the laboratory expertise to detect the same. We were able to arrive at a diagnosis of rickettsial Spotted fever in a child who presented with fever and rash with the support of appropriate investigations.
Vikneswari Karthiga Serane +3 more
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Contemporary management of pain in cirrhosis: Toward precision therapy for pain
Abstract Chronic pain is highly prevalent in patients with cirrhosis and is associated with poor health‐related quality of life and poor functional status. However, there is limited guidance on appropriate pain management in this population, and pharmacologic treatment can be harmful, leading to adverse outcomes, such as gastrointestinal bleeding ...
Alexis Holman +4 more
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Human Infection with Novel Spotted Fever Group Rickettsia Genotype, China, 2015
Only 4 species of spotted fever group rickettsiae have been detected in humans in China. However, phylogenetic analysis of samples from 5 ill patients in China indicated infection with a novel spotted fever group Rickettsia, designated Rickettsia sp ...
Hao Li +10 more
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Severe Japanese Spotted Fever Successfully Treated with Fluoroquinolone [PDF]
A 77 years old woman who had a bite with eschar on her left arm, was admitted to emergency ward in our hospital, because of high fever, severe malaise, skin eruption, and consciousness disturbance beginning 5 days previously.
Kakugawa, Tomoyuki +13 more
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Comparative studies were made of the microorganisms present in D. variabilis ticks, some of which served as a control series while the remainder were exposed to infection with D. rickettsi and thereafter maintained under various conditions.
Henry Pinkerton, G. M. Hass
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Epidemiology of Brucellosis and Q Fever in Linked Human and Animal Populations in Northern Togo [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Although brucellosis (Brucella spp.) and Q Fever (Coxiella burnetii) are zoonoses of global importance, very little high quality data are available from West Africa. METHODS/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: A serosurvey was conducted in Togo's main
Bassirou Bonfoh +15 more
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Human Parasitism by Amblyomma parkeri Ticks Infected with Candidatus Rickettsia paranaensis, Brazil
Spotted fever is the main rickettsial disease in Brazil. We report 12 cases of human parasitism by Amblyomma parkeri in the Atlantic rainforest, an area of Brazil to which spotted fever is endemic.
Ana Beatriz P. Borsoi +4 more
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Fatal Case of Mediterranean Spotted Fever Associated with Septic Shock, Iran
A fatal case of Mediterranean spotted fever associated with septic shock was reported in a 61-year-old man living in a village in southeastern Iran. The patient had a history of tick bite a few days before symptom onset.
Farrokhnia, Mehrdad +6 more
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Background. Rickettsial illnesses are a group of arthropod-borne remerging diseases. They are subdivided into three groups as typhus, spotted fever, and scrub typhus group.
A. G. T. A. Kariyawasam +5 more
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Israeli Spotted Fever in Sicily. Description of two cases and minireview
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
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