Rickettsiaaeschlimanniiinfection is a condition characterized by a rash of maculopapules. Tick-borne lymphadenopathy American tick bite fever List of...
Rickettsia prowazekii is a species of gram-negative, alphaproteobacteria, obligate intracellular parasitic, aerobic bacillus bacteria that is the etiologic...
Rickettsia rickettsii is a Gram-negative, intracellular, coccobacillus bacterium that was first discovered in 1902. Having a reduced genome, the bacterium...
Beati, L.; Meskini, M., et al. (1997), "Rickettsiaaeschlimannii sp. nov., a new spotted fever group rickettsia associated with Hyalomma marginatum ticks"...
Rickettsia parkeri (abbreviated R. parkeri) is a gram-negative intracellular bacterium. The organism is found in the Western Hemisphere and is transmitted...
causative agent of Q fever. The genus Coxiella is morphologically similar to Rickettsia, but with a variety of genetic and physiological differences. C. burnetii...
the infection. Human infection occurs because of flea-fecal contamination of the bites on human skin. Rats, cats, and opossums maintain the rickettsia colonization...
disorders. Gastric disorders due to infection begin with gastritis, inflammation of the stomach lining. When infection is persistent the prolonged inflammation...
and among wild gorillas; in both cases it is considered likely that the infection was acquired as a result of close contact with humans. Several zoos have...
the bacterium Bartonella quintana (older names: Rochalimea quintana, Rickettsia quintana), found in the stomach walls of the body louse. Bartonella quintana...
humans. It is known to cause wound infections and other species of its genera are known to cause urinary tract infections. P. vulgaris was one of the three...
filter-feeding shellfish; V. vulnificus infections in the Eastern United States have increased eightfold from 1988–2018. Infection with V. vulnificus leads to rapidly...
motility and urease activity. P. mirabilis causes 90% of all Proteus infections in humans. It is widely distributed in soil and water. Proteus mirabilis...
neonatal unit and review of the literature". The Journal of Hospital Infection. 70 (1): 7–14. doi:10.1016/j.jhin.2008.05.003. PMID 18632183. "Biochemical...
Rickettsia felis is a species of bacterium, the pathogen that causes cat-flea typhus in humans, also known as flea-borne spotted fever. Rickettsia felis...
bacterium was identified by the Bradley Sack lab in Kolkata in 1968. Infection with ETEC can cause profuse, watery diarrhea with no blood or leukocytes...
Rickettsia conorii is a Gram-negative, obligate intracellular bacterium of the genus Rickettsia that causes human disease called boutonneuse fever, Mediterranean...
animals, such as dogs, cats, pigs, goats, and humans. It is caused by infection with the bacterium Burkholderia mallei. Glanders is endemic in Africa...
diarrhea that is a symptom of a Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) infection. This toxin further causes premature destruction of the red blood cells...
Astrakhan fever) is a fever as a result of a rickettsial infection caused by the bacterium Rickettsia conorii and transmitted by the dog tick Rhipicephalus...
of Rickettsia. However, scrub typhus is still considered a rickettsiosis, even though the causative organism has been reclassified from Rickettsia tsutsugamushi...
non-invasive and uses blood or biopsies to diagnose. Bartonella henselae infection can appear up to 10 days after exposure to the microbe. Symptoms start...
lymph nodes. Occasionally, a form that results in pneumonia or a throat infection may occur. The bacterium is typically spread by ticks, deer flies, or...
localized and invasive infections, typically in infants and children, including pneumonia, meningitis, or bloodstream infections. Treatment consists of...
hemorrhagic septicemia in cattle and buffalo. It can also cause a zoonotic infection in humans, which typically is a result of bites or scratches from domestic...
all caused by bacteria of the genus Rickettsia. Typhus is a group of similar diseases also caused by Rickettsia bacteria, but spotted fevers and typhus...
resistance. The organism is considered opportunistic insofar as serious infection often occurs during existing diseases or conditions – most notably cystic...
a mite-borne infectious illness caused by bacteria of the genus Rickettsia (Rickettsia akari). Physician Robert Huebner and self-trained entomologist Charles...
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