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Medina Amarillas told reporters on Wednesday, they are issuing a public health warning due to the high number of rickettsia ...
Rickettsia is spread by ticks, lice, fleas, mites found in animals such as dogs. It lives in people’s bloodstream, slowly damaging their skin, lungs, brain and other organs until they die.
Researchers have identified a new species of Rickettsia bacteria that may cause significant disease in dogs and humans. This new yet unnamed species, initially identified in three dogs, is part of ...
Researchers identify new Rickettsia species in dogs. North Carolina State University. Journal Emerging Infectious Diseases DOI 10.3201/eid2612.200272 ...
The disease is caused by Rickettsia rickettsii, a species of bacteria that is spread to humans by ixodid (hard) ticks. Image courtesy CDC. 1990. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images).
Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) is the most deadly tickborne disease in the world. A bacterium called Rickettsia rickettsii causes this disease. The bacterium is found only in North and South ...
There's some good news in New Jersey about a potentially deadly tick-borne bacterium. Researchers examined more than 3,000 ticks in the Garden State and found only one carrying Rickettsia ...
The Lamason Lab studies R. parkeri as a model for infection of the more virulent Rickettsia rickettsii. R. rickettsii, carried and transmitted by ticks, causes Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.