Rickettsial diseases are infections that you can get from some tick bites. Ticks are tiny: Some are as small as a poppy seed. You may not even know you’ve been bitten by one, but the diseases they ...

Researchers recently discovered a sensitive and specific biomarker that may enable early diagnosis, treatment, and public awareness of spotted fever rickettsial infections, including Mediterranean ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The CDC published clinical and public health guidance on the diagnosis and management of several emerging ...

Rickettsial bacteria represent a diverse group of obligate intracellular pathogens whose existence is tightly interwoven with host cell physiology. These organisms have evolved specialised mechanisms ...

Lyme disease is not the only tick-borne illness affecting pets, with Anaplasma, Babesia, Ehrlichia, and Rickettsia also on the rise. These diseases, while sometimes treated with similar antibiotics ...

New research by a team of French and US scientists has identified both the bacterial and the host receptor proteins that enable Rickettsia conorii, the Mediterranean spotted fever pathogen, to enter ...

Clinical Infectious Diseases publishes clinically relevant articles on the pathogenesis, clinical investigation, medical microbiology, diagnosis, immune mechanisms, and treatment of diseases caused by ...

PUNE: A 38-year-old man from Kasba Peth died of rickettsial fever-induced multiple organ failure in a city hospital last month. This is perhaps the first such reported death in the city. Farmers, ...

Department of Microbiology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal will organize the 18th Annual State Conference of Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists at TMA Pai Hall 1, Manipal University on ...

New research by a team of scientists in France and the United States has identified both the bacterial and host receptor proteins that enable Rickettsia conorii, the Mediterranean spotted fever ...