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Nonnegligible Seroprevalence and Predictors of Murine Typhus, Japan
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2023 To elucidate the epidemiology of murine typhus, which is infrequently reported in Japan, we conducted a cross-sectional study involving 2,382 residents of rickettsiosis-endemic areas in Honshu Island during August–November 2020.
Tetsuro Aita +5 more
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Frontiers in EpidemiologyBackgroundAcute febrile illnesses such as typhoid fever, typhus, and malaria are still major causes of hospital admission in many parts of Ethiopia. However, there are substantial gaps in the monitoring systems, which result in a lack of knowledge about ...
Mengistu Abayneh +5 more
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Typhus Disease in the State of Azerbaijan During the Qajar Period (1796-1925) [PDF]
مجله علوم پزشکی صدراTyphus is a disease common to both humans and animals, transmitted by lice, ticks, or rats. The tick variant of this disease is more prevalent in colder regions such as Azerbaijan, where unsanitary living conditions and a local abundance of ticks may ...
Seyyed Alireza Golshani +2 more
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Typhus in Buchenwald: Can the Story Be Told?
Ethics in Progress, 2020 Ludwik Fleck is known today primarily as pioneer in the social study of scientific knowledge. However, during World War II he was a prisoner in Buchenwald, where he and other prisoners produced a typhus vaccine for the Nazis, and where he witnessed ...
Ilana Löwy
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Monocyte inflammation and adaptive immune dysfunction in severe Klebsiella pneumoniae pneumonia
iMeta, EarlyView.Severe Klebsiella pneumoniae pneumonia combines intense inflammation with failure to control infection, yet the cellular basis is unclear. Using a severity‐focused single‐cell atlas of 708,894 peripheral blood mononuclear cells from 100 individuals, complemented by plasma protein measurements and flow cytometry, we show that disease severity redirects ...
Hongquan Chen +23 more
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, 2020 BACKGROUND: Scrub typhus is an acute febrile illness caused by the obligate intracellular bacterium, Orientia tsutsugamushi. Immunochromatography (ICT) and IgM ELISA are two of the routinely employed antibody based assays for diagnosis of Scrub typhus ...
Parajuli, Keshab +4 more
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Pest Management Science, EarlyView.Norway rat ectoparasite burden varied by residential microhabitat, host traits, and trap type, showing that urban rodent management should address both rat burden and ectoparasite persistence in residential buildings. Abstract BACKGROUND Norway rats, Rattus norvegicus (Berkenhout), can carry ectoparasites of public health importance.
Babatunji Daramola +3 more
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Pyrethrum and the Second World War: Recontextualising DDT in the Narrative of Wartime Insect Control
HoST, 2022 Historians have long recognised that DDT’s fame began with extraordinary propaganda late in the Second World War, yet heroic narratives that centre the chemical still shape historical understanding.
Clarke Sabine, Brown Richard J. E.
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Renewed Risk for Epidemic Typhus Related to War and Massive Population Displacement, Ukraine
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2022 Epidemic typhus, caused by Rickettsia prowazekii bacteria and transmitted through body lice (Pediculus humanus corporis), was a major public health threat in Eastern Europe as a consequence of World War II.
Paul N. Newton +3 more
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
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