Emerging zoonoses with pandemic potential are a stated priority for the global health
security agenda, but endemic zoonoses also have a major societal impact in low-resource …

Obligately intracytosolic rickettsiae that cycle between arthropod and vertebrate hosts cause
human diseases with a spectrum of severity, primarily by targeting microvascular endothelial …

More than 75% of emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic in origin and a
transdisciplinary, multi-sectoral One Health approach is a key strategy for their effective …

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 …

Rickettsial diseases and scrub typhus constitute a group of the oldest known vector-borne
diseases. The cosmopolitan distribution of the vectors that transmit rickettsiae and orientiae …

Rickettsia felis is an obligate intracellular bacterium that is being increasingly recognized as
an etiological agent of human rickettsial disease globally. The agent is transmitted through …

This study aimed to compare the epidemiology of Rickettsia felis infection and malaria in
France, North Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa and to identify a common vector. Blood …

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 …

The flea-borne rickettsioses murine typhus (Rickettsia typhi) and flea-borne spotted fever
(FBSF)(Rickettsia felis) are febrile diseases distributed among humans worldwide. Murine …

Background In tropical Africa, where the spectrum of the bacterial pathogens that cause
fevers is poorly understood and molecular-based diagnostic laboratories are rare, the time …