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Bartonella quintana Characteristics and Clinical Management

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2006
Bartonella quintana, a pathogen that is restricted to human hosts and louse vectors, was first characterized as the agent of trench fever. The disease was described in 1915 on the basis of natural and experimental infections in soldiers.
Cédric Foucault, Philippe Brouqui, Didier Raoult   +2 more
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Trench Fever

Okorji O, Olarewaju O, Smith T, Pace WC.
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Japanese Macaques (Macaca fuscata) as Natural Reservoir of Bartonella quintana

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2015
Bartonella quintana bacteremia was detected in 6 (13.3%) of 45 wild-caught Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata). Multilocus sequence typing of the isolates revealed that Japanese macaques were infected with a new and specific B.
Shingo Sato, Hidenori Kabeya, Aika Yoshino, Wataru Sekine, Kazuo Suzuki, Hidetoshi B. Tamate, Shouki Yamazaki, Bruno B. Chomel, Soichi Maruyama   +8 more
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TRENCH FEVER CACHEXIA. [PDF]

The Lancet, 1918
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Bartonella quintana in Body Lice and Head Lice from Homeless Persons, San Francisco, California, USA

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2009
Bartonella quintana is a bacterium that causes trench fever in humans. Past reports have shown Bartonella spp. infections in homeless populations in San Francisco, California, USA.
Denise L. Bonilla, Hidenori Kabeya, Jennifer Henn, Vicki L. Kramer, Michael Y. Kosoy   +4 more
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Substantiation of Cumulative Coefficient Characterizing Epidemic Typhus Fever Transmission Activity Depending on Seasons

Проблемы особо опасных инфекций, 2009
Monthly distribution of epidemic typhus fever morbidity during epidemics arisen since the end of XIX up to the middle of XX century has been analyzed.
E. P. Lukin, S. L. Kirillova, V. B. Kirillov   +2 more
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Neglected infections of poverty in the United States of America. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2008
In the United States, there is a largely hidden burden of diseases caused by a group of chronic and debilitating parasitic, bacterial, and congenital infections known as the neglected infections of poverty.
Peter J Hotez
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TRENCH FEVER AS WAR INFECTION

Acta Medica Leopoliensia
Trench fever is a bartonellosis disease with a transmissible mechanism transmitted via a specific vector - the human body louse (Pediculus humanus), manifested by a sudden onset, relapsing fever, severe pain in the calf muscles, and abundant ...
Nataliya Vynograd, Zoriana Vasylyshyn, Lyudmyla Kozak, Ihor Chaklosh, Iryna Baidalka, Uliana Shul, Iryna Chaplyk-Chyzho   +6 more
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Outbreak of waterborne hepatitis E, Pune, Maharashtra, India, 2013

Indian Journal of Community and Family Medicine, 2015
Introduction: Following the report of clustering of jaundice cases from Kolvan village in Pune district, Maharashtra on 16th June, 2013, we investigated the outbreak with objectives to confirm the diagnosis, to describe it and to make recommendations for
Sampada Dhayarkar, Mandeep Chadha, Anuradha Tripathy, Sanjeev K Jadhav, Nandkumar Deshmukh, Sanjay Mehendale   +5 more
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Multi-locus sequence typing of a geographically and temporally diverse sample of the highly clonal human pathogen Bartonella quintana. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2010
Bartonella quintana is a re-emerging pathogen and the causative agent of a variety of disease manifestations in humans including trench fever. Various typing methods have been developed for B. quintana, but these tend to be limited by poor resolution and,
Mardjan Arvand, Didier Raoult, Edward J Feil   +2 more
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