Rickettsia

E. C. Crossley; J. M. Jordan; D. H. Walker

doi:10.1016/B978-012373960-5.00592-X

Rickettsia

E. C. Crossley, J. M. Jordan, D. H. Walker

Pathology

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Abstract

Rickettsiae are small obligately intracellular bacteria with small genomes owing to reductive evolution. Most rickettsiae reside in an arthropod host during their ecologic cycle and are transmitted by tick or mite feeding or in louse or flea feces. Rickettsia, Orientia, Ehrlichia, Anaplasma, Neorickettsia, Wolbachia, and Coxiella vary phenotypically and cause diseases such as rocky mountain spotted fever, epidemic typhus, murine typhus, scrub typhus, human monocytotropic ehrlichiosis, human granulocytotropic anaplasmosis, and Q fever. Because of high infectivity by stable aerosols, Rickettsia and Coxiella organisms are bioterror threats. Although treatable with doxycycline, clinical diagnoses are difficult, and there are no vaccines. © 2008

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	International Encyclopedia of Public Health
Publisher	Elsevier Inc.
Pages	582-590
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Print)	9780123739605
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012373960-5.00592-X
State	Published - 2008

Keywords

Anaplasma
Coxiella burnetii
Ehrlichia
Human granulocytotropic anaplasmosis
Human monocytotropic ehrlichiosis
Mediterranean spotted fever
Neorickettsia
Orientia
Q fever
Rickettsia
Rickettsialpox
Rocky mountain spotted fever
Sennetsu fever
Typhus
Wolbachia

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Dentistry
General Medicine

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