Human Rickettsia felis Infection, Canary Islands, Spain

We report the first cases of human infection by Rickettsia felis in the Canary Islands. Antibodies against R. felis were found in 5 adsorbed serum samples from 44 patients with clinically suspected rickettsiosis by Western blot serology. Fleas from 1 patient's dog were positive for R. felis by...

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Autores principales: Pérez-Arellano, Jose-Luis, Fenollar, Florence, Angel-Moreno, Alfonso, Bolaños, Margarita, Hernández, Michele, Santana, Evora, Hemmersbach-Miller, Marion, Martín, Antonio-M, Raoult, Didier
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Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3367641/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16485491
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1112.050711
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author Pérez-Arellano, Jose-Luis
Fenollar, Florence
Angel-Moreno, Alfonso
Bolaños, Margarita
Hernández, Michele
Santana, Evora
Hemmersbach-Miller, Marion
Martín, Antonio-M
Raoult, Didier
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Fenollar, Florence
Angel-Moreno, Alfonso
Bolaños, Margarita
Hernández, Michele
Santana, Evora
Hemmersbach-Miller, Marion
Martín, Antonio-M
Raoult, Didier
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description We report the first cases of human infection by Rickettsia felis in the Canary Islands. Antibodies against R. felis were found in 5 adsorbed serum samples from 44 patients with clinically suspected rickettsiosis by Western blot serology. Fleas from 1 patient's dog were positive for R. felis by polymerase chain reaction.
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spelling pubmed-33676412012-06-07 Human Rickettsia felis Infection, Canary Islands, Spain Pérez-Arellano, Jose-Luis Fenollar, Florence Angel-Moreno, Alfonso Bolaños, Margarita Hernández, Michele Santana, Evora Hemmersbach-Miller, Marion Martín, Antonio-M Raoult, Didier Emerg Infect Dis Dispatch We report the first cases of human infection by Rickettsia felis in the Canary Islands. Antibodies against R. felis were found in 5 adsorbed serum samples from 44 patients with clinically suspected rickettsiosis by Western blot serology. Fleas from 1 patient's dog were positive for R. felis by polymerase chain reaction. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2005-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3367641/ /pubmed/16485491 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1112.050711 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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Martín, Antonio-M
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Human Rickettsia felis Infection, Canary Islands, Spain
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