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1: Curr Infect Dis Rep. 2009 Jan;11(1):40-50.Links
Tick-Borne Rickettsioses in America: Unanswered Questions and Emerging
Diseases.
Parola P, Labruna MB, Raoult D.
Unité de Recherche en Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes
(URMITE), UMR CNRS-IRD 6236, World Health Organization Collaborative Center
for Rickettsial and Other Arthropod-Borne Bacterial Diseases, Faculté de
Médecine, 27 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13385 Marseille Cedex 5, France.
didier.raoult@gmail.com.
During most of the 20th century, Rickettsia rickettsii, the agent of
Rocky Mountain spotted fever, was considered the only tick-borne rickettsia
associated with human diseases in the Americas. This dogma suggested that
the other characterized and noncharacterized rickettsiae isolated from ticks
were not pathogenic to humans. This concept has been modified extensively in
the past 10 years with the identification of at least three additional
rickettsial species that cause human tick-borne rickettsioses and that are
prevalent in the Americas, including Rickettsia parkeri, Rickettsia
massiliae, and Rickettsia africae. Moreover, the genetic variability of R.
rickettsii and the milder forms of Rocky Mountain spotted fever reactivate
the hypothesis that some circulating genotypes of R. rickettsii may be more
virulent than others and may explain the wide variations in fatality rates
of the disease.
PMID: 19094824 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher
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