| 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 |
| molecular evidence supports the role of dogs as potential reservoirs for rickettsia felis. | abstract rickettsia felis causes flea-borne spotted fever in humans worldwide. the cat flea, ctenocephalides felis, serves as vector and reservoir host for this disease agent. to determine the role of dogs as potential reservoir hosts for spotted fever group rickettsiae, we screened blood from 100 pound dogs in southeast queensland by using a highly sensitive genus-specific pcr. nine of the pound dogs were positive for rickettsial dna and subsequent molecular sequencing confirmed amplification o ... | 2011 | 21612534 |
| seroprevalence and risk factors for rickettsia felis exposure in dogs from southeast queensland and the northern territory, australia. | the recent detection of rickettsia felis dna in dogs in australia suggests that dogs are potential mammalian reservoir hosts for this emerging rickettsia. to date, there is no published report addressing the seroprevalence of r. felis in dogs in australia. | 2013 | 23731951 |