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Manifestations and Management of Flea-Borne Rickettsioses

Research and Reports in Tropical Medicine, 2021
Maria A Caravedo Martinez,1 Alejandro Ramírez-Hernández,2 Lucas S Blanton1 1Department of Internal Medicine – Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA; 2Department of Pathology ...
Caravedo Martinez MA, Ramírez-Hernández A, Blanton LS   +2 more
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Fleas of small mammals on Reunion Island: diversity, distribution and epidemiological consequences.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2014
The diversity and geographical distribution of fleas parasitizing small mammals have been poorly investigated on Indian Ocean islands with the exception of Madagascar where endemic plague has stimulated extensive research on these arthropod vectors.
Vanina Guernier, Erwan Lagadec, Gildas LeMinter, Séverine Licciardi, Elsa Balleydier, Frédéric Pagès, Anne Laudisoit, Koussay Dellagi, Pablo Tortosa   +8 more
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Flea-Borne Typhus Presenting with Acalculous Cholecystitis and Severe Anemia

, 2023
Background. Flea-borne typhus (FBT), an uncommon illness in the United States, typically presents as a high continuous fever with commonly associated symptoms including headache, myalgias, and rashes on the trunk and extremities.
Ramya Varadarajan, Rashmeen Rahman, Ashmi P. Patel, Keyvon Rashidi, Ryan Neal, Albert Oh   +5 more
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Isolation of a novel Orientia species (O. chuto sp. nov.) from a patient infected in Dubai [PDF]

, 2010
In July 2006, an Australian tourist returning from Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), developed acute scrub typhus. Her signs and symptoms included fever, myalgia, headache, rash, and eschar.
Nuntipa Aukkanit, Nguyen, C, Nguyen, C., Blacksell, SD, Aukkanit, N, Ju Jiang, Allen L. Richards, Richards, A. L., Stenos, J., Daniel H. Paris, Jiang, J, Richards, AL, Graves, S., Stuart D. Blacksell, Stan Fenwick, Day, NP, Paris, Daniel, Stenos, J, John Stenos, Fuller, A, Andrew Fuller, Nicholas P. J. Day, Blacksell, S.D., Jiang, J., Chelsea Nguyen, Paris, D.H., Izzard, L, Graves, S, Fuller, A., Leonard Izzard, Stephen Graves, Aukkanit, N., Paris, DH, Fenwick, S., Day, Nicholas, Izzard, L., Fenwick, S, Day, N.P.J.   +37 more
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Successful Detection of Unrecognized Rickettsia typhi in Pregnancy Using Cell‐Free Next‐Generation Sequencing

Case Reports in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Volume 2020, Issue 1, 2020., 2020
Flea‐borne (murine) typhus is caused by Rickettsia typhi. Infection in pregnant women can lead to adverse outcomes when diagnosis and treatment is delayed. We describe how next‐generation sequencing (NGS) using the Karius® test was used to rapidly diagnose murine typhus in two pregnant women admitted to a large tertiary care center in Houston, Texas ...
Irene A. Stafford, Fernando H. Centeno, Mayar Al Mohajer, George Parkerson, Laila Woc-Colburn, Angelica Janice Burgos-Lee, Martha Rac, James Dunn, Kenneth Muldrew, Maria Grazia Porpora   +9 more
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Epidemiology of Acute Q Fever, Scrub Typhus, and Murine Typhus, and Identification of Their Clinical Characteristics Compared to Patients with Acute Febrile Illness in Southern Taiwan

Journal of the Formosan Medical Association, 2009
In Taiwan, acute Q fever, scrub typhus, and murine typhus (QSM diseases) are the most common rickettsioses, but their epidemiology and clinical characteristics have not been clarified. Diagnosis of these three diseases based on clinical manifestations is
Chung-Hsu Lai, Chun-Kai Huang, Yen-Hsu Chen, Lin-Li Chang, Hui-Ching Weng, Jiun-Nong Lin, Hsing-Chun Chung, Shiou-Haur Liang, Hsi-Hsun Lin   +8 more
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Ocular manifestations of Rickettsia conorii in South India

Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2018
Purpose: Among the major groups of rickettsiosis, the commonly reported diseases in India are: (a) Typhus group induced—scrub typhus, murine flea-borne typhus; (b) Spotted fever group induced—Indian tick typhus; and (c) Q fever.
Manohar B Balasundaram, M Manjunath, Girish Baliga, Forum Kapadi   +3 more
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Evidence of Yersinia pestis DNA from fleas in an endemic plague area of Zambia. [PDF]

, 2012
BACKGROUND: Yersinia pestis is a bacterium that causes plague which infects a variety of mammals throughout the world. The disease is usually transmitted among wild rodents through a flea vector.
Samui, Kenny L., Nakamura, Ichiro, Sugimoto Chihiro, Samui, Kenny L, Chihiro Sugimoto, Wren, Brendan W, Sugimoto, Chihiro, Ichiro Nakamura, Bukheti S Kilonzo, Wren, Brendan W., Kilonzo, Bukheti S, Davy Kaile, Mweene Aaron S, Hirofumi Sawa, Kilonzo, Bukheti S., Samui Kenny L, Kenny L Samui, Sawa Hirofumi, Nakamura Ichiro, Kaile, Davy, Mweene, Aaron S., Hang'ombe, Bernard M, Mweene, Aaron S, Wren Brendan W, Hang'ombe Bernard M, Kilonzo Bukheti S, Sawa, Hirofumi, Bernard M Hang'ombe, Aaron S Mweene, Hang’ombe, Bernard M., Kaile Davy, Brendan W Wren   +31 more
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Seroprevalence of typhus group and spotted fever group Rickettsia exposures on Reunion island

BMC Research Notes, 2019
Objective Murine typhus has been increasingly reported on Reunion island, Indian ocean, following documentation of eight autochthonous infections in 2012–2013.
Patrick Gérardin, Naël Zemali, Marie Bactora, Guillaume Camuset, Elsa Balleydier, Hervé Pascalis, Vanina Guernier, Corinne Mussard, Antoine Bertolotti, Yatrika Koumar, Florence Naze, Sandrine Picot, Laurent Filleul, Frédéric Pages, Pablo Tortosa, Julien Jaubert   +15 more
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Flea-borne typhus with rare neurological manifestations–Case report

, 2023
We report an inpatient case of flea-borne typhus (FBT) and normal pressure hydrocephalus in a 75-year-old male patient with a prior diagnosis of mixed Alzheimer and vascular dementia, who presented with acute onset of altered mental status, behavioral ...
Jasmine Liu-Zarzuela, Mariam Mufti, Imran Hasnuddin   +2 more
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