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Ears of the Armadillo: Global Health Research and Neglected Diseases in Texas [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) have\ud been recently identified as significant public\ud health problems in Texas and elsewhere in\ud the American South. A one-day forum on the\ud landscape of research and development and\ud the hidden burden of NTDs
AD Harries   +79 more
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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

High Seroprevalence for Typhus Group rickettsiae, southwestern Tanzania. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Rickettsioses caused by typhus group rickettsiae have been reported in various African regions. We conducted a cross-sectional survey of 1,227 participants from 9 different sites in the Mbeya region, Tanzania; overall seroprevalence of typhus group ...
Clowes, Petra   +10 more
core   +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

An outbreak investigation of scrub typhus in Nepal: confirmation of local transmission

open access: yesBMC Infectious Diseases, 2021
Background Scrub typhus is a largely ignored tropical disease and a leading cause of undifferentiated febrile illness in the areas of tsutsugamushi triangle caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi .
M. Dhimal   +13 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Official Medical Documents as a Source for Research of the Fate of Warsaw Jews 1939–1941

open access: yesZagłada Żydów, 2013
This paper presents two archival collections: death certificates of the Warsaw Jews (1939 and 1941), from the archives of the Jewish Historical Institute, and a collection of books kept in the State Archives in Warsaw, containing names of patients ...
Marta Janczewska
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

The Early Diagnosis of Scrub Typhus by Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2021
Introduction: Scrub typhus is a mite-borne infection widespread in Southeast Asia, with clinical symptoms such as fever, chills, skin rash, eschar at the bite site, and other signs of acute febrile illness. The Rickettsia pathogen (Orientia tsutsugamushi)
Xianghong Liu   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Neurological Facets of Scrub Typhus: A Comprehensive Narrative Review

open access: yesAnnals of Indian Academy of Neurology, 2021
Scrub typhus is one of the most frequent causes of acute febrile illness in South and South-east Asian countries. Neurological features accompany 20% of scrub typhus infections, and may affect the central or peripheral nervous system, and sometime, may ...
D. Garg, A. Manesh
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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