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Rickettsialpox — a rare but not extinct disease: review of the literature and new directions

2020-04-22

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Rickettsialpox is an urban zoonosis caused by Rickettsia akari. To date R. akari is the only well-characterized mite-borne member of the spotted fever group. It is transmitted by the mouse mite, Liponyssoides sanguineus, commonly found on peridomestic rodents. While the disease was first discovered in New York City in 1946, a few years later a similar outbreak occurred in the Ukraine SSR. Numerous serosurveys and...

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Literature Corpus work: b7393fa1-0d06-544b-9e49-06be29f995a6
DOI: 10.15789/2220-7619-rar-1294

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