Spotted Fever Group
Characterization of Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiae in Flea and Tick Specimens from Northern Peru
... the spotted fever group (SFG) and the typhus group (TG), on the basis of host specificity, intracellular location, in vitro growth conditions, antigenic characteristics, the molecular ...
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Seroprevalence of typhus group and spotted fever group Rickettsia exposures on Reunion island
... Objective: Murine typhus has been increasingly reported on Reunion island, Indian ocean, following documenta- tion of eight autochthonous infections in 2012–2013. We conducted a serosurvey to assess the magnitude of the ...
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Seroepidemiologic Study of Human Infections with Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiae in North Carolina
... that spotted fever group rickettsiae (SFGR) other than Rickettsia rickettsii are responsible for spotted fever rickettsioses in the United ...Mountain spotted fever ...
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Characterization of a spotted fever group Rickettsia from Ixodes ricinus ticks in Sweden
... A spotted fever group rickettsia isolated from the common tick, Ixodes ricinus, was genetically characterized by PCR and genomic ...the spotted fever group of ...the ...
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Characterization of Sicilian strains of spotted fever group rickettsiae by using monoclonal antibodies
... The supernatants were tested in the IIF assay for binding to the MAVI strain and four spotted fever group rickettsia strains isolated from Sicilian ticks two virulent and two nonpathogen[r] ...
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Evaluation and Comparison of PCR with Serological methods for the early Diagnosis of spotted Fever Group of Rickettsial Infections.
... for spotted fever group rickettsial DNA by 17-kDa ...as spotted fever (as per the case definition) serology and molecular tests for spotted fever were ...of fever ...
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Spotted fever group rickettsiae in Dermacentor reticulatus and Haemaphysalis punctata ticks in the UK
... Background: Spotted fever group (SFG) rickettsiae have recently been identified for the first time in UK ticks. This included the findings of Rickettsia helvetica in Ixodes ricinus and Rickettsia ...
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Molecular and serological evidence of flea associated typhus group and spotted fever group rickettsial infections in Madagascar
... Rickettsiae are Gram-negative obligate intracellular bac- teria, closely associated with blood-feeding arthropods and subdivided in two groups: typhus group (TGR) and spotted-fever group ...
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Spotted fever group rickettsiae in ticks of migratory birds in Romania
... There are two major bird migratory routes in eastern Europe, connecting the north-eastern part of the contin- ent, as well western Siberia to the Mediterranean region and these two join into the Eastern Mediterranean ...
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Silaghi, Cornelia (2008): Prevalence and genetic analysis of Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Spotted Fever Group rickettsiae in the tick Ixodes ricinus in urban and periurban sites in southern Germany. Dissertation, LMU München: Tierärztliche Fakultät
... Host-seeking Ixodes ricinus (L.) ticks were collected systematically, from May to September 2006, at selected sites in Southern Germany, including a large city park in Munich. Polymerase Chain Reactions for amplification ...
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Evaluation of a PCR Assay for Quantitation of Rickettsia rickettsii and Closely Related Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiae
... rOmpA-based spotted fever rickettsia quantitative PCR (SQ-PCR) assay that we found to be more suitable for quantifying ...related spotted fever group (SFG) ...
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Phenotypic and genotypic characterization of spotted fever group Rickettsiae isolated from Catalan Rhipicephalus sanguineus ticks
... with spotted fever group (SFG) rickettsiae in human and canine popula- tions was significantly lower in Catalonia than in the center of Spain (16, ...
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Rapid, simple, and sensitive detection of the ompB gene of spotted fever group rickettsiae by loop mediated isothermal amplification
... were tested for amplification that included seven species of the spotted fever group (R. sibirica, R. conorii, R. rickettsii, R. africa, R. parkeri, R. japonicai, and R. heilongjiangensis). All seven ...
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Evaluation of PCR-Based Assay for Diagnosis of Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiosis in Human Serum Samples
... A nested PCR assay was developed for the detection of spotted fever group (SFG) rickettsiae in serum samples. The assay was based on specific primers derived from the rickettsial outer membrane ...
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Genetic variation in Australian spotted fever group rickettsiae
... the spotted fever group (SFG) cause disease worldwide ...rickettsial spotted fever illnesses: Queensland tick typhus, which is caused by Rickettsia australis (2, 14) and occurs eastern ...
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Widespread subcutaneous necrosis in spotted fever group Rickettsioses from the coastal belt of Sri Lanka a case report
... Background: Spotted fever group rickettsioses (SFGR) transmitted mostly by ticks are increasingly discovered around the World and some of them are either re-emerging or emerging in Sri ...
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The role of cats in the eco epidemiology of spotted fever group diseases
... Interestingly, R. massiliae-Bar29 seroprevalence was the highest, even if cats with antibodies exclusively against this strain were considered (15.6%). Moreover, highest titres were observed against R. massiliae-Bar29 ...
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Novel spotted fever group rickettsiae in Haemaphysalis qinghaiensis ticks from Gansu, Northwest China
... Rickettsia spp. have been recognized as emerging or re- emerging pathogens of public health relevance [2]. With the completion of the complete genome sequences, new perspectives on rickettsial evolution have been ...
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Taxonomic Relationships among Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiae as Revealed by Antigenic Analysis with Monoclonal Antibodies
... ettsia (61, 68). In our study, strains of R. conorii, particularly the Indian tick typhus rickettsia, Kenya tick typhus rickettsia, M-1, and Seven strains, all showed very similar expression of epitopes. The Astrakhan ...
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Characterization and comparison of Australian human spotted fever group rickettsiae
... The microbiological and molecular characteristics of the rickettsiae isolated from humans with Queensland tick typhus QTT caused by Rickettsia australis and the recently described Flinde[r] ...
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