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rickettsial infection

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rickettsial infection
Rickettsial disease, rickettsiosis Any infection by Rickettsiae Groups 1. Typhus group–epidemic typhus, Brill-Zinsser disease, murine–endemic typhus, scrub typhus; 2. Spotted fever group–Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Eastern tick-borne rickettsiosis, rickettsialpox; 3. Q fever; 4. Trench fever
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Mice are also hosts for immature deer ticks (which carry certain pathogens like the bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi, the cause of Lyme disease in the United States), fleas that transmit rickettsial infections and other diseases to humans, and disease-carrying lice.
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Our criteria for a confirmed diagnosis of any rickettsial infection are the same as those published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta, GA, USA) for Rocky Mountain spotted fever: a clinically compatible case with a 4-fold change in IgG-specific antibody titer reactive with a rickettsial antigen by IFA between paired serum specimens or detection of rickettsial DNA in a blood, biopsy, or autopsy specimen through amplification of a specific target by PCR.
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Ehrlichiosis is a rickettsial infection first found in humans in 1986.
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