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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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Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Colombia

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2007
We investigated 2 fatal cases of Rocky Mountain spotted fever that occurred in 2003 and 2004 near the same locality in Colombia where the disease was first reported in the 1930s.
Marylin Hidalgo, Leonora Orejuela, Patricia Fuya, Pilar Carrillo, Jorge Hernandez, Edgar Parra, Colette Keng, Melissa Small, Juan P. Olano, Donald H. Bouyer, Elizabeth Castaneda, David Walker, Gustavo Valbuena   +12 more
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Spotted fever group rickettsiae in ticks of migratory birds in Romania [PDF]

, 2016
BACKGROUND: Birds are important hosts and dispersers of parasitic arthropods and vector-borne zoonotic pathogens. Particularly migratory species may carry these parasites over long distances in short time periods.
Andrei Daniel Mihalca, Angela Monica Ionică, Attila D. Sándor, Cozma Vasile, Gianluca D’Amico, Ioan-Daniel Mărcuţan, Zsuzsa Kalmár   +6 more
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The effectiveness of public health interventions to reduce the health impact of climate change:a systematic review of systematic reviews [PDF]

, 2013
Climate change is likely to be one of the most important threats to public health in the coming years. Yet despite the large number of papers considering the health impact of climate change, few have considered what public health interventions may be of ...
A Bouchama, A Croft, AJ McMichael, BF Arnold, BR Murphy, C Baker-Austin, C Gamble, C Heintze, C Savage, CE Lawrance, D Kay, D Zmirou, DE Bowler, DJ Rogers, E Esu, EN Naumova, FC Curriero, FO ter Kuile, G Nichols, GA Romero, GH Guyatt, H Balshem, H Nakato, H Paerl, HL Risebro, HW Choi, HY Richardson, IR Lake, IR Lake, J Carmona-Fonseca, J Keiser, JC Semenza, K Ohtomo, KK Ballenger-Browning, KL Bassil, L Fewtrell, Lee Hooper, M Hashizume, M Hashizume, MA Luque Fernandez, Maha Bouzid, MK van Aalst, Monica da Silva Nunes, MS Islam, N Al-Muhandis, N Siva, P Reiter, Paul R. Hunter, PM Graves, PR Hunter, PR Hunter, PR Hunter, PR Hunter, RF Baggaley, RM Elliott, RS Kovats, RS Kovats, RS Kovats, S Gundry, S Paz, S Warshafsky, SE Hrudey, T Clasen, TE Erlanger, TP Eisele, V Abrahamson, WP Schmidt, X Wang   +67 more
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Japanese Spotted Fever, South Korea

Emerging 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, Seung-Hyun Lee, Mi-Jeong Kim, Jung-Hee Lee, Eun-Sil Kim, Jin-Soo Lee, Mee-Kyung Kim, Mi-Yeoun Park, Jae-Seung Kang   +8 more
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Endothelial Exosome Plays a Functional Role during Rickettsial Infection

mBio, 2021
Spotted fever group rickettsioses are devastating human infections. Vascular endothelial cells are the primary targets of infection.
Yakun Liu, Changcheng Zhou, Zhengchen Su, Qing Chang, Yuan Qiu, Jiani Bei, Angelo Gaitas, Jie Xiao, Alexandra Drelich, Kamil Khanipov, Yang Jin, Georgiy Golovko, Tais B. Saito, Bin Gong   +13 more
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Anti rickettsia-antibody for spotted fever group in horses and dogs in the North of Paraná Stated, Brazil [PDF]

, 2010
The Brazilian Spotted Fever (BSF) is a zoonosis that can be fatal if not trteated. As there are few studies of the BSF in the Paraná State, the occurrence of BSF was serologically investigated in dogs and horses by indirect immunofluorescence assay (IFA),
GALHARDO, J.A., LABRUNA, M.B., OTOMURA, F.H., PACHECO, R.C., RIBEIRO, M.G., SANGIONI, L.A., TEODORO, U.   +6 more
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Detection of Spotted Fever Group Rickettsia DNA by Deep Sequencing

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2017
After conventional molecular and serologic testing failed to diagnose the cause of illness, deep sequencing identified spotted fever group Rickettsia DNA in a patient’s blood sample. Sequences belonged to R.
Rikki M.A. Graham, Steven Donohue, Jamie McMahon, Amy V. Jennison   +3 more
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Metagenomic-based Surveillance of Pacific Coast tick Dermacentor occidentalis Identifies Two Novel Bunyaviruses and an Emerging Human Ricksettsial Pathogen. [PDF]

, 2017
An increasing number of emerging tick-borne diseases has been reported in the United States since the 1970s. Using metagenomic next generation sequencing, we detected nucleic acid sequences from 2 novel viruses in the family Bunyaviridae and an emerging ...
Bouquet, Jerome, Chiu, Charles Y, Delwart, Eric, Lane, Robert S, Melgar, Michael, Swei, Andrea   +5 more
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Distribution and Ecological Drivers of Spotted Fever Group Rickettsia in Asia

EcoHealth, 2019
Spotted fever group and related rickettsia (SFGR) are a neglected group of pathogens that belong to the genus Rickettsia. SFGR are zoonotic and are transmitted by arthropod vectors, primarily ticks, fleas and mites to accidental hosts. These emerging and
Jaruwan Satjanadumrong, Matthew T. Robinson, Tom Hughes, S. Blacksell   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source