This review examines the nexus of poverty, malnutrition and diseases in Africa, the
challenges, implications and their mitigation. The paper takes a critical look at available …

Many infectious diseases have emerged or reemerged in Africa in the 21st century. Some of
them are associated with newly discovered microorganisms such as Rickettsia felis and …

Rickettsia felis is an emerging insect-borne rickettsial pathogen and the causative agent of
flea-borne spotted fever. First described as a human pathogen from the USA in 1991, R. felis …

SUMMARY Point-of-care (POC) laboratories that deliver rapid diagnoses of infectious
diseases were invented to balance the centralization of core laboratories. POC laboratories …

Rickettsiae are obligate intracellular bacteria that can cause mild to life-threatening
diseases, including epidemic typhus, one of the oldest pernicious diseases of mankind …

A growing number of recent reports have implicated Rickettsia felis as a human pathogen,
paralleling the increasing detection of R. felis in arthropod hosts across the globe, primarily …

Rickettsia felis is an obligate intracellular bacterium that is different from other officially
recognized rickettsial species. It has multiple genes of different origins, an incubation …

Background In recent years, the scope and importance of emergent vector-borne diseases
has increased dramatically. In Algeria, only limited information is currently available …

Rickettsioses share common clinical manifestations, such as fever, malaise, exanthema, the
presence or absence of an inoculation eschar, and lymphadenopathy. Some of these …

Rickettsia typhi and Rickettsia felis are flea-borne rickettsiae that are distributed throughout
the world. This mini-review outlines the ecology and epidemiology of flea-borne …