Sentences with word «rickettsia»

Typhus, a disease caused by bacteria called rickettsias, has been blamed for numerous military debacles, the earliest in 1489 when it killed 17,000 soldiers in a war over Granada between the Moors and the Spanish army of Ferdinand and Isabella.

2015 — Dr. Kevin Macaluso, professor in Pathobiological Sciences, received a $ 1.6 million grant renewal for his work investigating Rickettsia rickettsia, which is the acting agent of one of the most severe tick - borne diseases in the United States.

It is one of many rickettsia organisms, which on the evolutionary scale are between bacteria and viruses.

MIF test is a IFA test that can distinguish R. rickettsi from the other two antigenically similar rickettsiae.

This disease is caused by adult ticks carrying rickettsia parasites.

The American Dog tick is the most commonly - identified species responsible for transmitting rickettsia, which causes Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) in humans.

Fleas also spread rickettsia between dogs and cats.

By killing and detaching ticks, PREVENTIC ® Tick Collar can reduce the risk for transmission of Lyme disease, babesiosis, and rickettsia.

Lyme disease is a rickettsia (bacteria - like organism) transmitted by ticks and between animals; it most commonly causes fever, pain and arthritis, and can be transmitted to humans.

Ehrlichiosis, more commonly known as tick fever, is generally caused by an organism known as a rickettsia, Ehrlichia canis.

Rocky Mountain spotted fever, also spread by contact with ticks, is caused by a different kind of bacteria called a rickettsia, which is rod - shaped and multiplies only within the cells of its host.

Ehrlichiosis is an emerging disease caused by a rickettsia: a type of bacteria that infects dogs, people, and less commonly cats.

Both rickettsiae are transmitted transovarially (the female fleas transmit the disease to their offspring).

Once in the dog's intestinal tract, the larval flukes excyst and release the rickettsiae.

Infections - Infections can come from specific viruses, fungi, protozoa, bacteria, rickettsia, prions and algae

He had to be treated for both the fluke and the rickettsia, which was accomplished successfully.

Mitochondria are of course endosymbionts of the eukaryotic cell — and would appear to be most closely related to rickettsia, the bacteria responsible for typhoid: