| african tick bite fever. | physicians may encounter unfamiliar diseases as a result of international travel. fever with rash is an important sign that usually represents initial manifestation of infectious disorders. a 62-year-old taiwanese woman presented with multiple eschars, a papulovesicular rash, and fever 5 days after returning from south africa. a biopsy specimen of an eschar had wedge-shaped tissue necrosis, hemorrhage, necrotizing vasculitis of the small venules and arterioles, and a dense perivascular lymphocyt ... | 2008 | 18218581 |
| identification of potential hosts and vectors of scrub typhus and tick-borne spotted fever group rickettsiae in eastern taiwan. | scrub typhus and tick-borne spotted fever group (sfg) rickettsioses are transmitted by chiggers (larval trombiculid mites) and hard ticks, respectively. we assessed exposure to these disease vectors by extensively sampling both chiggers and ticks and their small mammal hosts in eastern taiwan during 2007 and 2008. the striped field mouse apodemus agrarius pallas (rodentia: muridae) was the most common of the small mammals (36.1% of 1393 captures) and presented the highest rate of infestation wit ... | 2011 | 21223345 |
| high prevalence of rickettsia spp. infections in small mammals in taiwan. | surveillance for rickettsia spp. is urgently needed due to the recent emergence of many novel rickettsioses around the globe, but previous studies in taiwan have been limited to small areas and no investigation of infections in vertebrate hosts has ever been attempted. we surveyed rickettsial infections systematically in small-mammal hosts trapped between 2006 and 2010 throughout taiwan. fragments of ompb and glta genes in the liver, spleen, and kidney of mammals were targeted by nested polymera ... | 0 | 25629776 |
| surveillance of ticks and associated pathogens in free-ranging formosan pangolins (manis pentadactyla pentadactyla). | chinese pangolins are critically endangered insectivorous mammals distributed in several south and southeast asian countries. in recent years, there has been an increase in spread of tick-borne diseases in both humans and animals worldwide. currently, limited information is available on ticks and associated pathogens infesting pangolins. the objective of the present study was to survey ticks and associated pathogens in the formosan pangolin population in southeastern taiwan. free-ranging formosa ... | 2016 | 27426438 |
| detection of rickettsia spp. and host and habitat associations of fleas (siphonaptera) in eastern taiwan. | rickettsia typhi and rickettsia felis (rickettsiales: rickettsiaceae) are two rickettsiae principally transmitted by fleas, but the detection of either pathogen has rarely been attempted in taiwan. of 2048 small mammals trapped in eastern taiwan, apodemus agrarius pallas (24.5%) and mus caroli bonhote (24.4%) (both: rodentia: muridae) were the most abundant, and m. caroli hosted the highest proportion of fleas (63.9% of 330 fleas). two flea species were identified: stivalius aporus jordan and ro ... | 2012 | 22390200 |