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The Lancet, 1917 During the past few months it has been my good fortune to observe several hundred cases of this extremely prevalent, carefully studied, but yet undetermined infection, known as trench fever. The name is really a misnomer. At first it was considered a result of trench life, and traumatic periostitis of the tibiae was thought to be the underlying ...
H. Moreland McCrea +1 more
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Emerging bacterial infectious diseases/pathogens vectored by human lice
Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2023 Human lice have always been a major public health concern due to their vector capacity for louse-borne infectious diseases, like trench fever, louse-borne relapsing fever, and epidemic fever, which are caused by Bartonella quintana, Borrelia recurrentis,
Yuan-Ping Deng +6 more
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Emerging Microbes and Infections, 2022 Bartonella species are fastidious, aerobic bacteria that are transmitted by blood-sucking arthropods. Bartonella spp. are responsible for cat scratch disease, Carrion’s disease, bacillary angiomatosis and trench fever.
Yuru Shi +7 more
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Disseminated Bartonella quintana Causing Osseous Lytic Lesions
Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases, 2023 Bartonella, a gram-negative bacterium, causes various clinical syndromes such as cat scratch disease (B henselae), Carrion disease (B bacilliformis), and trench fever (B quintana).
Sarah Freling +4 more
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Wars, disasters and kidneys [PDF]
, 2014 This paper summarizes the impact that wars had on the history of nephrology, both worldwide and in the Ghent Medical Faculty notably on the definition, research and clinical aspects of acute kidney injury.
Lameire, Norbert
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Borrelia recurrentis in Head Lice, Ethiopia
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2013 Since the 1800s, the only known vector of Borrelia recurrentis has been the body louse. In 2011, we found B. recurrentis DNA in 23% of head lice from patients with louse-borne relapsing fever in Ethiopia.
Amina Boutellis +6 more
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Pulex irritans on Dogs and Cats: Morphological and Molecular Approach
Journal of Arthropod-Borne Diseases, 2023 Background: The painful bite of Pulex irritans; causes wound on the host body and is a vector for Bartonella bacteria species, which can cause trench fever, Rickettsia species, Rocky Mountain spotted fever and Mediterranean spotted fever.
Amrollah Azarm +6 more
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IDCases, 2021 Bartonella species are Gram-negative bacilli and fastidious bacteria that can cause a number of clinical syndromes, including blood culture-negative infective endocarditis (IE).
Haripriya Santhanam +6 more
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Bacillary angiomatosis in HIV-infected patients - An epidemiological and clinical study [PDF]
, 2000 Background: No data were available on the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of bacillary angiomatosis (BA) in Germany. Objective:To determine epidemiological and clinical data on HIV-associated BA.
Albrecht, H. +9 more
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Risk Factors for Human Lice and Bartonellosis among the Homeless, San Francisco, California, USA
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2014 Homeless persons in San Francisco, California, USA, have been shown to have head and body lice infestations and Bartonella quintana infections. We surveyed a self-selected population of homeless persons in San Francisco to assess infestations of head and
Denise L. Bonilla +4 more
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