| study on immunobiology in ectoparasites of public health interest: rhipicephalus sanguineus. | the recently defined range of mediterranean spotted fever (msf) in sardinia coincides with that of the widely studied rickettsia conorii vector, the brown dog tick rhipicephalus sanguineus. this tick is major vector of disease in humans, domestic and wild animals. characteristic features of the vector with respect to their seasonal activity, abundance as well as incidence of human-tick contact and how these factors influence the incidence of msf were studied. this paper also looks at host, patho ... | 2001 | 12078475 |
| [ticks and the pediatrician]. | the match between ticks and pediatricians in italy is usually a seasonal event related to the spring and summer trips and to the increasing of outdoor activity that sun and warm weather allow, both for children and ticks. so cared parents reach emergencies asking for tick removal but more often after the tick has yet been removed by empirical manoeuvres and after the killing and the destruction of the "enemy". we have scheduled, in the years 2002-2003, the 167 children that reached our unit for ... | 2004 | 15305698 |
| socio-demographic and climatic factors as correlates of mediterranean spotted fever (msf) in northern sardinia. | mediterranean spotted fever (msf) is endemic in the mediterranean area. we carried out a retrospective study to investigate the association between socio-demographic and climatic factors and msf incidence in northern sardinia. we found that maximum temperature levels during the previous summer were associated with increases in msf incidence. | 2008 | 18256437 |
| mediterranean spotted fever-like illness in sardinia, italy: a clinical and microbiological study. | rickettsioses represent a group of emerging infectious diseases in europe. climate changes and the anthropization of rural environment have favored vectors' biological cycle and geographic spread. in sardinia, mediterranean spotted fever (msf) is endemic and represents an important public health problem. | 2016 | 27380385 |
| rickettsia conorii israelensis in rhipicephalus sanguineus ticks, sardinia, italy. | the presence of tick-borne rickettsia spp. was examined by pcr using dna samples extracted from 254 ticks collected from mammals originating from northern and eastern sardinia, italy. the spotted fever group rickettsial agent rickettsia conorii israelensis was detected in 3 rhipicephalus sanguineus ticks from a dog for the first time in this geographical area. in addition, ri. massiliae, ri. slovaca, and ri. aeschlimannii were detected in rh. turanicus, rh. sanguineus, dermacentor marginatus, an ... | 2014 | 24852264 |
| israeli spotted fever in sicily. description of two cases and minireview. | mediterranean spotted fever (msf) is endemic in italy, where rickettsia conorii subsp. conorii was thought to be the only pathogenic rickettsia and rhipicephalus sanguineus the vector and main reservoir. r. conorii subsp. israelensis, which belongs to the r. conorii complex, is the agent of israeli spotted fever (isf); apart from israel, it has also been found in italy (sicily and sardinia) and in different regions of portugal. we describe here two severe cases of isf which occurred in otherwise ... | 2017 | 28408252 |