Human Rickettsia felis infections in Mainland China

We identified four flea-borne spotted fever cases caused by Rickettsia felis in a retrospective survey of 182 patients with fever of unknown origin (FUO) in China between 2021 and 2022. The clinical signs and symptoms of the patients were similar to those of other rickettsioses, including fever, ras...

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Autores principales: Teng, Zhongqiu, Zhao, Na, Ren, Ruotong, Zhang, Xue, Du, Zhenshan, Wang, Pengfei, Qin, Tian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Cellular and Infection Microbiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9537614/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36211956
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2022.997315
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author Teng, Zhongqiu
Zhao, Na
Ren, Ruotong
Zhang, Xue
Du, Zhenshan
Wang, Pengfei
Qin, Tian
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description We identified four flea-borne spotted fever cases caused by Rickettsia felis in a retrospective survey of 182 patients with fever of unknown origin (FUO) in China between 2021 and 2022. The clinical signs and symptoms of the patients were similar to those of other rickettsioses, including fever, rash, and liver and kidney dysfunction. All four patients in the present study developed pneumonia or lung lesions after R. felis infection. The cases of R. felis infection, a neglected infectious disease, were sporadic in multiple provinces of the country. The high prevalence (2.14%, 4/187) of R. felis among patients with FUO highlights the risk posed by this pathogen to public health in China.
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spelling pubmed-95376142022-10-08 Human Rickettsia felis infections in Mainland China Teng, Zhongqiu Zhao, Na Ren, Ruotong Zhang, Xue Du, Zhenshan Wang, Pengfei Qin, Tian Front Cell Infect Microbiol Cellular and Infection Microbiology We identified four flea-borne spotted fever cases caused by Rickettsia felis in a retrospective survey of 182 patients with fever of unknown origin (FUO) in China between 2021 and 2022. The clinical signs and symptoms of the patients were similar to those of other rickettsioses, including fever, rash, and liver and kidney dysfunction. All four patients in the present study developed pneumonia or lung lesions after R. felis infection. The cases of R. felis infection, a neglected infectious disease, were sporadic in multiple provinces of the country. The high prevalence (2.14%, 4/187) of R. felis among patients with FUO highlights the risk posed by this pathogen to public health in China. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-09-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9537614/ /pubmed/36211956 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2022.997315 Text en Copyright © 2022 Teng, Zhao, Ren, Zhang, Du, Wang and Qin https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Human Rickettsia felis infections in Mainland China
title Human Rickettsia felis infections in Mainland China
title_full Human Rickettsia felis infections in Mainland China
title_fullStr Human Rickettsia felis infections in Mainland China
title_full_unstemmed Human Rickettsia felis infections in Mainland China
title_short Human Rickettsia felis infections in Mainland China
title_sort human rickettsia felis infections in mainland china
topic Cellular and Infection Microbiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9537614/
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