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Contrasting Spatial Distribution and Risk Factors for Past Infection with Scrub Typhus and Murine Typhus in Vientiane City, Lao PDR

open access: yesPLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2010
BackgroundThe aetiological diagnostic of fevers in Laos remains difficult due to limited laboratory diagnostic facilities. However, it has recently become apparent that both scrub and murine typhus are common causes of previous undiagnosed fever ...
Julie Vallée   +2 more
exaly   +4 more sources

Spatio-temporal patterns of scrub typhus in mainland China, 2006-2017

open access: yesPLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2019
BackgroundScrub typhus, a serious public health problem in the Asia-Pacific area, is endemic in the "tsutsugamushi triangle" area. Scrub typhus has been widespread and has become a significant health concern in China.
Yujuan Yue, Dongsheng Ren, Xiaobo Liu
exaly   +2 more sources

Few aspects of epidemics control in 1915–1916 (on resources of Tsarskoselskiy uyezd)

open access: yesУчёные записки Санкт-Петербургского государственного медицинского университета им. Акад. И.П. Павлова, 2021
Police reports and papers of the sanitary-executive commission about deceases of people of Tsarskoselskiy uyezd are understudied documents of 1915–1917, representative for comparative study of the resources and epidemic dynamics, special characteristics ...
A. P. Orlova
doaj   +1 more source

A rare case of acute pancreatitis due to scrub typhus: A case report

open access: yesAssam Journal of Internal Medicine, 2023
Scrub typhus is an acute febrile sickness, also known as tsutsugamushi fever, which is brought on by Orientia tsutsugamushi, a tiny, obligate intracellular gram-negative bacteria whose polysaccharides have an antigenic connection to proteus OX-K, which ...
Nitesh Badal   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Typhus Group Rickettsiosis, Brazilian Amazon

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2020
Rickettsia rickettsii infection is the only rickettsiosis included in the list of reportable diseases in Brazil, where typhus group rickettsioses, mainly murine typhus, have been underreported.
Antonio H.H. Minervino   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Real and Imagined Places in the Diary of Gabriella Trebits

open access: yesGenealogy, 2023
Gabriella Trebits was a prisoner of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp between November 1944 and April 1945. The spaces present in her diary include both the places of the camp and her typhoid hallucinations.
Heléna Huhák, András Szécsényi
doaj   +1 more source

Scrub typhus with complications of acute myocarditis and cardiac tamponade in metropolitan areas: two case reports [PDF]

open access: yesKosin Medical Journal, 2023
Scrub typhus is known as one of the most common seasonal infections in endemic rural areas, but life-threatening cardiac complications in cases of scrub typhus are very infrequent.
Ki-Woon Kang, Wonho Kim
doaj   +1 more source

Severe Murine Typhus with Pulmonary System Involvement

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2014
We encountered a case of severe murine typhus complicated by acute respiratory distress syndrome. To determine worldwide prevalence of such cases, we reviewed the literature and found that respiratory symptoms occur in ≈30% of murine typhus patients.
Thomas W. van der Vaart   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rickettsia typhi as Cause of Fatal Encephalitic Typhus in Hospitalized Patients, Hamburg, Germany, 1940–1944

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2018
We evaluated formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue specimens from 7 patients who died with encephalitic typhus in Hamburg, Germany, during World War II.
Jessica Rauch   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Brief History of the Major Rickettsioses in the Asia–Australia–Pacific Region: A Capstone Review for the Special Issue of TMID

open access: yesTropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2020
The rickettsioses of the “Far East” or Asia–Australia–Pacific region include but are not limited to endemic typhus, scrub typhus, and more recently, tick typhus or spotted fever.
Daniel H. Paris   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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