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Famines in medieval and early modern Europe—Connecting climate and society

open access: yesWIREs Climate Change, Volume 15, Issue 1, January/February 2024.
Schematic model of the interaction of key environmental and societal factors determining famine risks. We summarize the impact order between climatic shocks, famine resilience and vulnerability, famine mitigation, and short‐term and long‐term effects and impacts of famines on society.
Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Body lice as the cause of typhus reemergence.

open access: yes, 2019
R. prowazekii is classified as a category B bioterrorism agent. It is stable in dried louse feces and can be transmitted through aerosols. Detection of the pathogen in body lice is crucial for monitoring the transmission risk to humans.
Pierre Edouard Fournier (7325519)   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Overlooked Brill‐Zinsser Disease Presenting Like Japanese Spotted Fever: A Diagnostic Challenge

open access: yes
The Journal of Dermatology, Volume 52, Issue 11, Page e995-e996, November 2025.
Makoto Kondo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rickettsiales and rickettsial diseases in Australia

open access: yes, 2010
Currently, there are 12 known Rickettsiales species in Australia. However research into the diversity and range of these agents in Australia is still far from complete.
Izzard, Leonard
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Investigation of bacterial infection and immunity in the body louse

open access: yes, 2023
The human body louse (Pediculus humanus humanus) is a host-specific hematophagous ectoparasite that frequently infests populations experiencing a breakdown of hygienic conditions.
Kress, Lauren Mae
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Incidence and trends of ixodid tick-borne borreliosis and Siberian tick typhus in the Eastern Transbaikalia

open access: yes, 2022
Aim. To study the trends and to assess longterm incidence of ixodid tick-borne borreliosis (ITB) and Siberian tick typhus (STT) in Eastern Transbaikalia for the improvement of preventive measures.Materials and Methods.
A. Ya. Nikitin   +2 more
core   +1 more source

An epidemiological and serological study of Rickettsia in Western Australia

open access: yes, 2011
The study was aimed at investigating Western Australian rickettsiae, delving deeper into the epidemiology of a recently described rickettsia, Rickettsia gravesii, and any other rickettsiae lurking in the Western Australian bush. Prior to the discovery of
Abdad, Mohammad
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Features of the Epidemiological Situation on Siberian Tick Typhus and other Tick-Borne Ricketsioses in the Russian Federation, Prognosis for 2019

open access: yes, 2019
The review presents an analysis of the epidemic situation on infections of rickettsial etiology, the causative agents of which are transmitted by Ixodidae ticks in the territory of the Russian Federation.
I. E. Samoylenko   +8 more
core   +1 more source

History, Rats, Fleas, and Opossums: The Ascendency of Flea-Borne Typhus in the United States, 1910–1944

open access: yes, 2020
Flea-borne typhus, due to Rickettsia typhi and Rickettsia felis, is an infection causing fever, headache, rash, hepatitis, thrombocytopenia, and diverse organ manifestations.
Gregory M. Anstead
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A century of typhus, lice and Rickettsia

open access: yes, 2000
At the beginning of the 20th century, it was discovered at the Pasteur Institute in Tunis that epidemic typhus is transmitted by the human body louse. The complete genome sequence of its causative agent, Rickettsia prowazekii, was determined at Uppsala ...
Andersson, Siv GE,, Andersson, Jan O,
core   +1 more source

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