New Foci of Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiae Including Rickettsia honei in Western Australia

We describe the first reported case of spotted fever group rickettsiosis in Western Australia, and two cases of probable Rickettsia honei from a new geographic focus. These findings highlight the need to raise awareness of ricksettsial infection among local clinicians as well as those treating visit...

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Autores principales: Raby, Edward, Pearn, Toby, Marangou, Andreas G., Merritt, Adam J., Murray, Ronan J., Dyer, John R., Graves, Stephen R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2016
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Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6082045/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30270856
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed1010005
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author Raby, Edward
Pearn, Toby
Marangou, Andreas G.
Merritt, Adam J.
Murray, Ronan J.
Dyer, John R.
Graves, Stephen R.
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description We describe the first reported case of spotted fever group rickettsiosis in Western Australia, and two cases of probable Rickettsia honei from a new geographic focus. These findings highlight the need to raise awareness of ricksettsial infection among local clinicians as well as those treating visitors to this region, important for outdoor recreation.
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spelling pubmed-60820452018-09-24 New Foci of Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiae Including Rickettsia honei in Western Australia Raby, Edward Pearn, Toby Marangou, Andreas G. Merritt, Adam J. Murray, Ronan J. Dyer, John R. Graves, Stephen R. Trop Med Infect Dis Communication We describe the first reported case of spotted fever group rickettsiosis in Western Australia, and two cases of probable Rickettsia honei from a new geographic focus. These findings highlight the need to raise awareness of ricksettsial infection among local clinicians as well as those treating visitors to this region, important for outdoor recreation. MDPI 2016-08-17 /pmc/articles/PMC6082045/ /pubmed/30270856 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed1010005 Text en © 2016 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Murray, Ronan J.
Dyer, John R.
Graves, Stephen R.
New Foci of Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiae Including Rickettsia honei in Western Australia
title New Foci of Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiae Including Rickettsia honei in Western Australia
title_full New Foci of Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiae Including Rickettsia honei in Western Australia
title_fullStr New Foci of Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiae Including Rickettsia honei in Western Australia
title_full_unstemmed New Foci of Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiae Including Rickettsia honei in Western Australia
title_short New Foci of Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiae Including Rickettsia honei in Western Australia
title_sort new foci of spotted fever group rickettsiae including rickettsia honei in western australia
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