Scrub typhus is a serious public health problem in the Asia-Pacific area. It threatens one
billion people globally, and causes illness in one million people each year. Caused by …

Tick-borne rickettsioses are caused by obligate intracellular bacteria belonging to the
spotted fever group of the genus Rickettsia. These zoonoses are among the oldest known …

Rodents are the most abundant and diversified order of living mammals in the world.
Already since the Middle Ages we know that they can contribute to human disease, as black …

Abstract The book Australian Ticks by FHS Roberts (1970) is a land-mark in Australian tick
biology. But it is time for a new and improved book on the ticks of Australia. The present …

During most of the 20th century, the epidemiology of tick-borne rickettsioses could be
summarized as the occurrence of a single pathogenic rickettsia on each continent. An …

Scrub typhus infection is an important cause of acute undifferentiated fever in South East
Asia. The clinical picture is characterized by sudden onset fever with chills and non-specific …

Spotted fever group rickettsiae (SFG) are a neglected group of bacteria, belonging to the
genus Rickettsia, that represent a large number of new and emerging infectious diseases …

Scrub typhus is a mite-borne, acute febrile illness caused by the bacterium Orientia
tsutsugamushi. It is a re-emerging infectious disease of the tsutsugamushi triangle. Scrub …

Abstract Background The Australian paralysis tick (Ixodes holocyclus) is of significant
medical and veterinary importance as a cause of dermatological and neurological disease …

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