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Spotted Fever Group Rickettsioses in Israel, 2010–2019 [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2021
In a multicenter, nationwide, retrospective study of patients hospitalized with spotted fever group rickettsiosis in Israel during 2010–2019, we identified 42 cases, of which 36 were autochthonous.
Regev Cohen, Talya Finn, Frida Babushkin, Yael Paran, Ronen Ben Ami, Alaa Atamna, Sharon Reisfeld, Gabriel Weber, Neta Petersiel, Hiba Zayyad, Eyal Leshem, Miriam Weinberger, Yasmin Maor, Nicola Makhoul, Lior Nesher, Galia Zaide, Dar Klein, Adi Beth-Din, Yafit Atiya-Nasagi   +18 more
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Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiae in Questing Ticks, Central Spain [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2013
These results demonstrate that SFG rickettsiae with public health relevance are found in ticks in central Spain as in other regions in Spain. In central Spain, the widespread distribution of tick vectors and possible wildlife hosts, the presence of ...
Isabel G. Fernández de Mera, Francisco Ruiz-Fons, Gabriela de la Fuente, Atilio J. Mangold, Christian Gortázar, José de la Fuente   +5 more
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Mapping the global distribution of spotted fever group rickettsiae: a systematic review with modelling analysis. [PDF]

Lancet Digit Health, 2023
Summary Background Emerging and re-emerging spotted fever group (SFG) rickettsioses are increasingly recognised worldwide as threats to public health, yet their global distribution and associated risk burden remain poorly understood.
Zhang YY, Sun YQ, Chen JJ, Teng AY, Wang T, Li H, Hay SI, Fang LQ, Yang Y, Liu W.   +9 more
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Spotted Fever Group Rickettsia spp. Diversity in Ticks and the First Report of Rickettsia hoogstraalii in Romania. [PDF]

Vet Sci, 2022
Simple Summary Ticks are important parasites that feed on the blood of various host species, representing the most important arthropods transmitting diseases in Europe.
Ivan T, Matei IA, Novac CȘ, Kalmár Z, Borșan SD, Panait LC, Gherman CM, Ionică AM, Papuc I, Mihalca AD.   +9 more
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Spotted fever group rickettsiae (SFGR) detection in ticks following reported human case of Japanese spotted fever in Niigata Prefecture, Japan

Scientific Reports, 2021
Japanese spotted fever, a tick-borne disease caused by Rickettsia japonica, was firstly described in southwestern Japan. There was a suspicion of Rickettsia japonica infected ticks reaching the non-endemic Niigata Prefecture after a confirmed case of ...
Reiko Arai, Megumi Sato, Miwako Kato, Junko Aoki, Akiko Nishida, Kaori Watanabe, Chika Hirokawa, Sumire Ikeda, Kozo Watanabe, Maria Angenica F. Regilme, Marcello Otake Sato, Tsutomu Tamura   +11 more
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Spotted Fever Group Rickettsioses among Hospitalized Patients and Circulation of Rickettsia in Ticks, Kazakhstan, 2019 [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases
Testing for spotted fever group rickettsioses (SFGR) and the criteria for identifying suspected patients are not routinely used in Kazakhstan. In 2019, we performed a cross-sectional study in 6 sentinel hospitals in the Pavlodar region.
Yekaterina V. Bumburidi, Dmitriy V. Berezovskiy, Bakhytkul T. Zhakipbayeva, Roberta Z. Horth, Alexander J. Millman, William L. Nicholson, Galina E. Zemtsova, Victoria Seffren, Elina R. Maltseva, Zhanna A. Berdygulova, Yekaterina O. Ostapchuk, Yuliya V. Perfilyeva, Andrey M. Dmitrovskiy, Zhansulu K. Dukayeva, Zhanna Zh. Shapiyeva   +14 more
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Bilateral Sensorineural Deafness in a Young Pregnant Female Presenting with a Fever: A Rare Complication of a Reemerging Disease—Spotted Fever Group Rickettsioses

Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, 2019
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, D. R. Palangasinghe, C. L. Fonseka, P. U. T. De Silva, T. E. Kanakkahewa, N. J. Dahanayaka   +5 more
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A molecular survey of spotted fever group rickettsiae in introduced raccoons (Procyon lotor) [PDF]

Parasites & Vectors, 2022
Background The raccoon Procyon lotor (Linnaeus, 1758) (Carnivora; Procyonidae) is one of the most important and most intensively studied invasive mammal species in Europe.
Joanna Hildebrand, Agnieszka Perec-Matysiak, Marcin Popiołek, Dorota Merta, Izabella Myśliwy, Katarzyna Buńkowska-Gawlik   +5 more
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Rapid, simple, and sensitive detection of the ompB gene of spotted fever group rickettsiae by loop-mediated isothermal amplification [PDF]

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2012
Background Spotted fever caused spotted fever group rickettsiae (SFGR) is prevalent throughout China. In this study, we describe a rapid, simple, and sensitive loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay targeting the ompB gene of spotted fever ...
Pan Lei, Zhang Lijuan, Wang Guiqiang, Liu Qinghui   +3 more
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A new spotted fever group Rickettsia genotype in Haemaphysalis leporispalustris from Maine, USA [PDF]

Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases
Spotted fever group (SFG) rickettsioses are increasingly recognized worldwide as threats to public health. Rickettsia rickettsii, Rickettsia parkeri, and Rickettsia rickettsii subspecies californica cause spotted fever rickettsioses, including Rocky ...
Guang Xu, Elissa Ballman, Nolan Stamborski, Eric L. Siegel, Patrick Pearson, Stephen M. Rich   +5 more
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