Murine typhus
Dose response model of murine typhus (Rickettsia typhi): time post inoculation and host age dependency analysis
... Human murine typhus caused by Rickettsia typhi (R. mooseri) is an infectious disease that requires the fewest number of pathogens to initiate disease. The dose- response models developed in this study ...
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Detection of arbitrarily-shaped clusters using a neighbor-expanding approach: A case study on murine typhus in South Texas
... The data used in the present study include geographic boundary shapefiles, population data, and disease data issued by the Texas Department of State Health services. In this study, the cluster detection was performed at ...
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Loop Mediated Isothermal Amplification for Rickettsia typhi (the Causal Agent of Murine Typhus): Problems with Diagnosis at the Limit of Detection
... in murine typhus ...with murine typhus remain to be elucidated but might include low bacterial load inoculation from fleas, rapid postinoc- ulation shift to endothelial and parenchymal ...
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Serological Differentiation of Murine Typhus and Epidemic Typhus Using Cross-Adsorption and Western Blotting
... epidemic typhus and those from persons with murine typhus ...with murine typhus reacted as if it had come from an epidemic-typhus ...with murine typhus because it ...
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Detection of murine typhus infection in fleas by using the polymerase chain reaction
... Polymerase chain reaction PCR amplification of DNA was used to detect the etiologic agent of murine typhus, Rickettsia typhi, in experimentally infected adult fleas.. A primer pair deriv[r] ...
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Identification of a novel rickettsial infection in a patient diagnosed with murine typhus
... Nucleic acid extracts from acute-phase blood samples of murine typhus patients were utilized for nested PCR amplification of a portion 231 bp of the rickettsia-specific 17-kDa antigen ge[r] ...
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Prospective Evaluation of Commercial Antibody-Based Rapid Tests in Combination with a Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification PCR Assay for Detection of Orientia tsutsugamushi during the Acute Phase of Scrub Typhus Infection
... scrub typhus infection criteria ...scrub typhus infection status of the patients included in the study: in vitro iso- lation of ...scrub typhus and Rickettsia typhi Wilmington strain antigens for ...
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Indirect hemagglutination test for human antibody to typhus and spotted fever group rickettsiae
... Comparison of serological tests for detection of typhus and spotted fever antibodies in human sera Test Serum Murine typhus Epidemic typhus Brill-Zinsser disease Rocky Mountain spotted f[r] ...
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Lymph node hemophagocytosis in rickettsial diseases: a pathogenetic role for CD8 T lymphocytes in human monocytic ehrlichiosis (HME)?
... A summary of the median histopathologic rankings for HME, RMSF, and control cases for each of the five features is shown in Table 1. The main similarity between HME and RMSF was the degree of hemophagocytosis (Figure 1), ...
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Acute phase diagnosis of murine and scrub typhus in Belgian travelers by polymerase chain reaction: a case report
... for murine typhus- and hiking through bush wood for scrub ...in murine typhus. Albeit a key clinical finding in scrub typhus, it may be absent in up to 50% of the cases [16] or may go ...
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Typhus and typhuslike rickettsiae associated with opossums and their fleas in Los Angeles County, California
... Opossums trapped in close proximity to the residences of human murine typhus cases in Los Angeles county and other areas within the city of Los Angeles were tested for the presence of ty[r] ...
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Comparative evaluation of a commercial enzyme immunoassay for the detection of human antibody to Rickettsia typhi.
... DS murine typhus test kit (Integrated Diagnos- tics), an assay based on an enzyme-linked immunoassay dot technique for the detection of IgG and IgM antibodies, was evaluated in this ...
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Misdiagnosis of scrub typhus complicated by hemophagocytic syndrome
... scrub typhus are associated with higher rates of misdiagnosis [4], and there are about 19 misdiagnosed diseases for scrub typhus ...scrub typhus, the characteristic eschar and ulcers are often hidden ...
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Neurological Manifestations of Scrub Typhus and Determinants of Outcome
... Scrub typhus is a re-emerging zoonosis. In the pre-antibiotic era methods to prevent the spread of Scrub typhus included spraying and dusting clothes with insecticides, and burning areas at the fringe of ...
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A Comparative Study on the Diagnostic Methods of Scrub Typhus
... scrub typhus specific antibody bound to the smears of scrub typhus antigen [47] ...scrub typhus is controversial as old reports have shown that they persist for many years but recent reports over a ...
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The clinical characteristics of pleural effusion in scrub typhus
... In our retrospective study, the chest radiographs were routinely examined when the patients were initially ad- mitted, and 51.2 % of the chest radiographs of the con- firmed adult scrub typhus patients had ...
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Cardiovascular abnormalities in severe scrub typhus
... scrub typhus can manifest with potentially life- threatening cardiovascular complications likes ST/T changes, myocarditis, pericardial effusion, arrhythmias, valvular involvement and ...scrub typhus with ...
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Prevalence and clinical presentation of Rickettsia, Coxiella, Leptospira, Bartonella and chikungunya virus infections among hospital based febrile patients from December 2008 to November 2009 in Bangladesh
... An earlier study on rickettsial disease in Bangladesh was conducted at Mymensingh Medical College Hospital where 40 rickettsial cases were described including 48% with scrub typhus and 40% with Indian tick ...
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Neonatal Scrub Typhus: A Case Report
... The typical initial skin lesion, eschar, develops in 50% to 80% of cases.6 Meningitis, myocarditis, disseminated intravascular coagulation, and hypofibrinogenemia associated with tsutsug[r] ...
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Clinical proteomic analysis of scrub typhus infection
... scrub typhus, information about diagnostic markers is ...scrub typhus [2, 16, ...scrub typhus patients has not been successfully performed, presumably because ...scrub typhus patients, we ...
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