Clinics in Dermatology
Volume 24, Issue 3 , Pages 191-200, May 2006

Tropical rickettsioses

Unité des Rickettsies CNRS UMR 6020, IFR48, WHO Collaborative Center for Rickettsial Reference and Research, Medicine School of Marseille, 13385 Marseille Cedex 5, France

Abstract 

In recent years, a bewildering array of emerging rickettsial pathogens have been described throughout the world, including in the tropics. Here we present an updated overview of scrub typhus, murine typhus, and epidemic typhus. We also present an update on the emerging spotted fever group rickettsioses described in the tropics through 2005, focusing on epidemiologic and clinical data and management.

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PII: S0738-081X(05)00169-0

doi:10.1016/j.clindermatol.2005.11.007

Clinics in Dermatology
Volume 24, Issue 3 , Pages 191-200, May 2006

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