Systemic illness in the dog occurs if the fluke is infected
with a rickettsial organism, Neorickettsia helminthoeca.
If a dog ingests raw fish containing the flukes that are infected
with the rickettsial organism, salmon poisoning will occur.
The study reviewed nearly 20 years of published literature and included the results of a pregnancy fever cohort from the Thai - Myanmar border, which found that for pregnant women
with rickettsial infections, the proportion of poor neonatal outcome was 36 %.
Evidence suggests that dinosaurs could have been infected
with Rickettsial pathogens.
Not exact matches
«Tropical
rickettsial illnesses associated
with adverse pregnancy outcomes.»
The Special Pathogens Branch, part of The Division of Viral and
Rickettsial Diseases, deals
with some of the really nasty stuff - diseases like Ebola, Rift Valley fever, and Lassa fever (and before you ask, a
Rickettsial disease is one caused by any Rickettsia bacteria, which are carried by parasites such as ticks, fleas and lice, and cause diseases such as typhus).
Evidence of true infection
with any erythrocyte - borne pathogen or
rickettsial disease based upon blood smear, culture, convalescent IFA, or PCR
Feral cats, as
with all cats, are susceptible to diseases and infections including rabies, bartonellosis, toxoplasmosis, plague, parasites, feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV), feline leukemia virus (FeLV),
rickettsial diseases, and feline respiratory disease complex (FRDC, a group of respiratory illnesses including feline herpesvirus type 1, feline calicivirus, Chlamydia felis, and Mycoplasma felis).