Rickettsia africae Infection in a Japanese Traveller with Many Tick Bites

Rickettsia africae infection in a Japanese traveller with many tick bites.

Tick-transmitted infections in Transvaal: consider Rickettsia africae.

References 1. Raoult D, Roux V. Rickettsioses as paradigms of new or emerging infectious diseases. Clin Microbiol Rev 1997;10:694-719. 2. Maurin M, Raoult D. Bartonella (Rochalimaea) quintana infections. Clin Microbiol Rev 1996;9:273-92. 3. Johnson WD. Borrelia species (relapsing fever). In: Mandell GL, Douglas RG, Bennet JE, editors. Principles and practice of infectious diseases. 3rd ed. Edin...

Rickettsia africae, Western Africa

tional Center for Biotechnology Information basic local alignment sequence tool, BLAST (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ blast/Blast.cgi). To determine whether R. felis occurs on another Caribbean island, we tested 32 C. felis fl eas from Dominica and found 1 (3%) to be positive by PCR when primers targeting ompA were used. The sequence obtained was also identical to that of R. felis URRxCal2. Our study p...

Rickettsia africae Infection in Man after Travel to Ethiopia

often given with prednisolone, would have been necessary. In pregnant women with West African (T. brucei gambiense) stage II disease, either melarsoprol or eflornithine can be used, but neither is effective for East African disease. Although efl ornithine can abort early pregnancies and cause disordered organogenesis (9), the severe encephalopathy associated with melarsoprol makes efl ornithine...

Emergence of Rickettsia africae, Oceania

We detected Rickettsia africae, the agent of African tick-bite fever (ATBF), by amplification of fragments of gltA, ompA, and ompB genes from 3 specimens of Amblyomma loculosum ticks collected from humans and birds in New Caledonia. Clinicians who treat persons in this region should be on alert for ATBF.