| markers of exposure to spotted fever rickettsiae in patients with chronic illness, including fatigue, in two australian populations. | some investigators believe that a proportion of chronically unwell patients, many with fatigue, have an underlying rickettsial disease. | 2008 | 18287113 |
| flinders island spotted fever rickettsioses caused by "marmionii" strain of rickettsia honei, eastern australia. | australia has 4 rickettsial diseases: murine typhus, queensland tick typhus, flinders island spotted fever, and scrub typhus. we describe 7 cases of a rickettsiosis with an acute onset and symptoms of fever (100%), headache (71%), arthralgia (43%), myalgia (43%), cough (43%), maculopapular/petechial rash (43%), nausea (29%), pharyngitis (29%), lymphadenopathy (29%), and eschar (29%). cases were most prevalent in autumn and from eastern australia, including queensland, tasmania, and south austral ... | 2007 | 17553271 |
| not only 'flinders island' spotted fever. | to demonstrate that flinders island spotted fever (fisf), a spotted fever group rickettsial infection caused by rickettsia honei, is found not only on flinders island (bass strait), tasmania, but elsewhere in south-east australia. | 2005 | 16175900 |
| a new focus of rickettsia honei spotted fever in south australia. | we recently diagnosed rickettsial spotted fever in four patients from the south-eastern coastal region of south australia near adelaide, an area not known to be endemic for this infection. all infections were acquired within the geographic range of aponomma hydrosauri, the tick vector of rickettsia honei. infection by r. honei was confirmed in two patients. this extension of the known geographic range of r. honei infection may be explained, in part, by alterations in host-parasite ecology. | 2005 | 15748134 |