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A hospital based study of rickettsial diseases evidenced by Weil Felix test in a tertiary care hospital

open access: yesCHRISMED Journal of Health and Research, 2014
Introduction: Rickettsial infections, one of the re-emerging diseases are increasingly underdiagnosed due to nonspecific symptoms, absence of reliable and affordable diagnostic test and contribute substantially to the acute febrile burden and preventive ...
Uttam Udayan   +2 more
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Contribuição para o conhecimento do tifo exantemático neotrópico no Brasil

open access: yesMemorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1947
Os autores mostraram a necessidade de estudar minuciosamente os fócos da doença para o melhor conhecimento das questões epidemiológicas e clínicas da mesma. Mostraram que os Veados e Cabritos pódem desempenhar papel importante na difusão do virus.
Octavio Coelho de Magalhães, Adyr Rocha
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Burden of scrub typhus among patients with acute febrile illness attending tertiary care hospital in Chitwan, Nepal

open access: yesBMJ Open, 2020
Objectives Scrub typhus is an emerging neglected tropical disease, reported from many parts of Asia including Nepal. This study aims to determine the seroepidemiology of scrub typhus among febrile patients attending Chitwan Medical College Teaching ...
Sangita Thapa   +4 more
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Purpura fulminans secondary to rickettsial infections: A case series

open access: yesIndian Dermatology Online Journal, 2016
Purpura fulminans (PF) is a descriptive term used to describe a heterogeneous group of disorders characterized by rapidly progressive purpuric lesions that may develop into extensive areas of skin necrosis, and peripheral gangrene.
Saloni Katoch   +3 more
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Association between age and severity to leptospirosis in children. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2013
BACKGROUND: In endemic areas, leptospirosis is more common and more severe in adults compared with children. Reasons to explain this discrepancy remain unclear and limited data focusing on adolescents are available.
Gilles Guerrier   +7 more
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Follow-up of a Rickettsia felis encephalitis: Some new insights into clinical and imaging features

open access: yesInternational Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2021
Rickettsia felis (R. felis) infection is a cause of unspecified encephalitis. However, the incidence has been underestimated due to the intracellular features of the pathogen and insufficient understanding of its clinical picture.
Ziling Zeng   +6 more
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A Retrospective Cohort Study of Leptospirosis in Crete, Greece

open access: yesTropical Medicine and Infectious Disease
Introduction: Leptospirosis is an under-recognized zoonosis that affects both tropical and temperate regions. While it is often associated with exposure to contaminated water or infected animals, its presentation and epidemiology in Mediterranean ...
Petros Ioannou   +6 more
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A Case of Scrub Typhus Presenting with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome and its Management in Intensive Care Unit

open access: yesJournal of Integrated Health Sciences, 2023
Orientia tsutsugamushi causes a zoonotic infection called scrub typhus, which is transmitted by trombiculid mite larvae. The infection is widely distributed throughout the Asia-Pacific region and has also been reported in various parts of India.
Aarjuv Hemant Majmundar   +3 more
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