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Rochalimaea

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Rochalimaea /Ro·cha·li·maea/ (ro″kah-li-me´ah) see Bartonella.
Ro·cha·li·mae·a (rch-l-m)
n.
A genus of bacteria, closely resembling Rickettsia in staining properties, morphology, and mode of transmission between hosts.

Rochalimaea
[rosh′əlimē′ə]
a genus of bacteria resembling Rickettsia but found extracellularly in an arthropod host. The species, R. quintana (now called Bartonella quintana), is a cause of trench fever as transmitted by the body louse. A related bacterium, R. henselae, is a cause of bacillary angiomatosis in immunocompromised humans, including those with human immunodeficiency virus infection.

Rochalimaea [ro″kah-li-me´ah]
a genus of bacteria of the family Rickettsiaceae resembling the genus Rickettsia, but usually found extracellularly in the arthropod host; R. quinta´na is the etiologic agent of trench fever, transmitted by the body louse Pediculus humanus.

Rochalimaea
a genus of the family Rickettsiaceae resembling the genus Rickettsia, but usually found extracellularly in the arthropod host, including R. quintana, the etiological agent of trench fever of humans and voles, transmitted by the body louse Pediculus humanus.


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Researchers have recently implicated Rochalimaea bacteria as the cause of trench fever and cat scratch disease, two other human illnesses.
Relapsing illness due to Rochalimaea henselae in immunocompetent hosts: implication for therapy and new epidemiological associations.
 
 
 
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