Sentences with phrase «murine typhus»
The risk that cat fleas pose to humans is also consequential, since these tiny insects can harbor such zoonotic agents as those that cause such human diseases as cat - scratch disease (Bartonella henselae), murine typhus, and plague.
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Other diseases transmitted from cats to humans include hookworms, cat scratch disease, murine typhus, tularemia, plague and rabies.
Geographic association of Rickettsia felis - Infected opossums with human murine typhus, Texas.
For example, murine typhus and bartonellosis (cat scratch disease) can be transmitted to humans from cat flea bites or the bacteria from feces of infected cat fleas (gross, right?).
Fleas can transmit harmful parasites like tapeworms and Murine typhus and can cause dermatitis and anemia.
Fleas are a nuisance but can also transmit diseases to people such as bubonic plague, murine typhus and spotted fever.
Murine typhus (endemic typhus) fever, and in some cases tapeworms, Hymenolepis, can also be transmitted by fleas.
A recent study from the Thai - Myanmar border highlights the severe and previously under - reported adverse impact of readily treatable tropical rickettsial illnesses, notably scrub typhus and murine typhus, on pregnancy outcomes, finding that more than one third of affected pregnancies resulted either in stillbirth or premature and / or low birth weight babies.
Caused by bacteria and often acquired by mite, flea or tick bites, tropical rickettsial illnesses — mainly scrub typhus and murine typhus — are a very common cause of undifferentiated fever in parts of South - East Asia.
Conducted by Prof Rose McGready and Assoc. Prof Daniel Henry Paris from the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU) in Mae Sot, Thailand, and the Mahidol Oxford Research Unit (MORU) in Bangkok, affiliated to Oxford University, UK, in collaboration with Prof John Antony Jude Prakash of the Dept. of Clinical Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India, the study, «Pregnancy outcome in relation to treatment of Murine typhus and Scrub typhus infection: a fever cohort and a case series analysis,» will be published in the November 20th, 2014 issue of PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.