TY - JOUR
T1 - Emerging and Reemerging Rickettsial Diseases
AU - Walker, David H.
AU - Dumler, J. Stephen
PY - 1994/12/15
Y1 - 1994/12/15
N2 - The article by Kass et al.1 in this issue of the Journal is an appropriate reminder that rickettsialpox, like rickettsial diseases in general, is still with us. The rickettsialpox diagnosed in 13 patients at one hospital in New York City undoubtedly represents only a fraction of the actual cases of this endemic disease. Rickettsia akari is maintained in a zoonotic cycle involving house mice and mites, passing rickettsiae transovarially from one generation of mites to the next. Such firmly established, highly evolved ecologic niches are unlikely to disappear, nor are humans likely to avoid encountering the bacteria that flourish in…
AB - The article by Kass et al.1 in this issue of the Journal is an appropriate reminder that rickettsialpox, like rickettsial diseases in general, is still with us. The rickettsialpox diagnosed in 13 patients at one hospital in New York City undoubtedly represents only a fraction of the actual cases of this endemic disease. Rickettsia akari is maintained in a zoonotic cycle involving house mice and mites, passing rickettsiae transovarially from one generation of mites to the next. Such firmly established, highly evolved ecologic niches are unlikely to disappear, nor are humans likely to avoid encountering the bacteria that flourish in…
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0028029441&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=0028029441&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1056/NEJM199412153312410
DO - 10.1056/NEJM199412153312410
M3 - Editorial
C2 - 7969347
AN - SCOPUS:0028029441
SN - 0028-4793
VL - 331
SP - 1651
EP - 1652
JO - New England Journal of Medicine
JF - New England Journal of Medicine
IS - 24
ER -