| rickettsia felis in fleas, western australia. | this study is the first confirmation of rickettsia felis in australia. the organism was identified from 4 species of fleas obtained from dogs and cats in western australia, by using polymerase chain reaction amplification and dna sequencing of the citrate synthase and outer membrane protein a genes. | 2006 | 16704850 |
| first probable australian cases of human infection with rickettsia felis (cat-flea typhus). | human infection with rickettsia felis has been reported in most parts of the world, and r. felis has recently been confirmed in cat fleas in western australia. the clinical presentations of r. typhi and r. felis are similar, and in the past, the incidence of r. felis infection may have been underestimated. we describe the first reported cases of probable human r. felis infection in australia. two adults and three children in victoria contracted a rickettsial disease after exposure to fleas from ... | 2011 | 21449868 |
| rickettsioses in australia. | the rickettsial diseases of australia are described in their chronological order of discovery. the include epidemic typhus (r. prowazekii); murine typhus (r. typhi) found australia-wide; scrub typhus (o. tsutsugamushi) only in tropical, northen australia; q. fever (c. burnetti) found australia-wide; queensland tick typhus (r. australis) along the east coast of australia; flinders island spotted fever (r. honei) in southeast australia; variant flinders island spotted fever (r. honei, strain "marm ... | 2009 | 19538275 |