Inactivation of SAM-methyltransferase is the mechanism of attenuation of a historic louse borne typhus vaccine strain. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Louse borne typhus (also called epidemic typhus) was one of man's major scourges, and epidemics of the disease can be reignited when social, economic, or political systems are disrupted.
Yan Liu +4 more
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Jail Fever (Epidemic Typhus) Outbreak in Burundi
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 1997 We recently investigated a suspected outbreak of epidemic typhus in a jail in Burundi. We tested sera of nine patients by microimmunofluorescence for antibodies to Rickettsia prowazekii and Rickettsia typhi. We also amplified and sequenced from lice gene
D. Raoult +6 more
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Genotyping of human lice suggests multiple emergencies of body lice from local head louse populations. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2010 BACKGROUND: Genetic analyses of human lice have shown that the current taxonomic classification of head lice (Pediculus humanus capitis) and body lice (Pediculus humanus humanus) does not reflect their phylogenetic organization.
Wenjun Li +6 more
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Nanoparticles: A Potential and Effective Method to Control Insect‐Borne Diseases
Bioinorganic Chemistry and Applications, Volume 2023, Issue 1, 2023., 2023 Insects act as vectors to carry a wide range of bacteria and viruses that can cause multiple vector‐borne diseases in humans. Diseases such as dengue fever, epidemic encephalitis B, and epidemic typhus, which pose serious risks to humans, can be transmitted by insects.
Danyue Nie +9 more
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STUDIES ON THE INTEREPIDEMIC SURVIVAL OF LOUSE BORNE EPIDEMIC TYPHUS FEVER [PDF]
Journal of Bacteriology, 1955 Winston H Price
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Epidemic typhus in the Lithuanian army from 1919 to 1923 [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2022 nema
Šimkutė Viktorija, Gudienė Vilma
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Reporting of the Politika Belgrade daily newspaper on the epidemics of typhus in Serbia during the First World War [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2021 Background/Aim. The epidemic of typhus lasted for sever-al months in the Kingdom of Serbia during the First World War, and a vast number of people lost their lives. The objective of the paper was to investigate how the Politika, Belgrade daily newspaper,
Barović Vladimir +2 more
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"Serbian, first phase" of the supression of the epidemics in 1914 and 1915 [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2018 nema
Čukić Goran
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Infectious disease in the Pleistocene: Old friends or old foes?
American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 182, Issue 4, Page 513-531, December 2023., 2023 Sources of evidence for studying infectious diseases of humans and other Pleistocene hominins. From top to bottom: DNA analysis of humans and hominins, modern and ancient, including the analysis of genomes at a population scale; palaeopathology, such as osteolytic skeletal lesions resulting from infection, and the study of mummified tissues or palaeo ...
Charlotte J. Houldcroft, Simon Underdown
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The Disaster Spreading with Louse: Typhus
, 2023 Tifüs, insanlık tarihinin en eski hastalıklarındandır. Tarihi ve coğrafi kökenleri tartışmalı olmakla birlikte bazı tıp tarihçileri tifüsün Thucydides tarafından tanımlanan eski bir Avrupa hastalığı olduğunu ileri sürmektedirler. Vücut biti “Pediculus
Karcı, Erol
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