Spotted Fever Group Rickettsia in the Pampa Biome, Brazil, 2015-2016. [PDF]
Emerg Infect Dis, 2016 To the Editor: Several cases of tickborne rickettsiosis have been reported in South America in recent years (1,2). In Brazil, 2 spotted fever group (SFG) Rickettsia species, R. rickettsii and Rickettsia sp.
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Development of a loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay for rapid screening of ticks and fleas for spotted fever group rickettsia. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2018 Background The importance of tick and flea-borne rickettsia infections is increasingly recognized worldwide. While increased focus has shifted in recent years to the development of point-of-care diagnostics for various vector-borne diseases in humans and
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New Spotted Fever Group Rickettsia Isolate, Identified by Sequence Analysis of Conserved Genomic Regions. [PDF]
Pathogens, 2019 The clinical features of spotted fever group (SFG) Rickettsia induced disease range from a mild to severe illness. The clinical complexity is even greater due to the fact that the disease can be caused by different species with varying degrees of ...
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Spotted-Fever Group Rickettsia in Dermacentor variabilis, Maryland
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2004 Three-hundred ninety-two adult Dermacentor variabilis were collected from six Maryland counties during the spring, summer, and fall of 2002. Infection prevalence for spotted fever group Rickettsia was 3.8%, as determined by polymerase chain reaction ...
Nicole C. Ammerman +6 more
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Serological and molecular detection of spotted fever group Rickettsia in a group of pet dogs from Luanda, Angola. [PDF]
Parasit Vectors, 2017 Infections with tick-borne rickettsiae can cause diseases well known in humans but still not so well characterized in dogs. Susceptibility to infection depends on the virulence of Rickettsia spp.
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Estimated seroprevalence of Anaplasma spp. and spotted fever group Rickettsia exposure among herders and livestock in Mongolia. [PDF]
Acta Trop, 2018 von Fricken ME +9 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 +7 more
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Rickettsia aeschlimannii: A New Pathogenic Spotted Fever Group Rickettsia, South Africa
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2002 To the Editor: Spotted fever group rickettsiae are increasingly recognized as agents of disease in residents of and tourists to South Africa (1). To date, two species, Rickettsia conorii and R. africae, which cause Mediterranean spotted fever (MSF) and African tick-bite fever (ATBF), respectively, have been associated with human disease in the region ...
Anne-Marie Pretorius, Richard J. Birtles
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Clinical case of spotted fever group rickettsiae [PDF]
International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2019 We report a Astrakhan ricketsiosis fever in woman who came from Astrakhan. On admission she had fever, intoxication syndrome, exanthema. In complex examination of blood serum by ELISA were reveled IgM and IgG to Rickettsia conorii on the 15th day of the disease.
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Pathogens, 2021 Tick-borne infectious diseases caused by obligate intracellular bacteria of the genus Rickettsia are a growing global problem to human and animal health.
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