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1. www.sciencedirect.com › science › articleFleas and flea-borne diseases - ScienceDirect

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   Aug 1, 2010 · Fleas, as hosts for a wide range of largely understudied pathogens (except Yersinia pestis ), are no exception, and flea-borne diseases may re-emerge in epidemic form. Examples of this are the changing ecology of murine typhus, 1 the finding of Rickettsia spp in new hosts, 2 and the finding of fleas on new hosts or in geographical areas ...

2. www.newworldencyclopedia.org › entry › TyphusTyphus - New World Encyclopedia

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   Typhus the name of any one of several similar diseases caused by particular bacteria in the Rickettsiaceae family and spread to humans by arthropod vectors ( lice, fleas, mites, chiggers) from the endemic rodent hosts. The four main types of typhus are epidemic typhus (caused by Rickettsia prowazekii via lice), Brill-Zinsser disease ...

3. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › pmc › articlesMurine Typhus: A Review of a Reemerging Flea-Borne ...

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   Oct 26, 2023 · The disease is caused by Rickettsia typhi, an obligately intracellular Gram-negative coccobacillus . Murine typhus is endemic to much of the world, especially along seaboard regions of the tropics and subtropics, where rats and their fleas play a role in the maintenance and transmission to humans .

4. www.dshs.texas.gov › typhus › flea-borne-typhusFlea-borne Typhus | Texas DSHS

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   Flea-borne Typhus, (Murine Typhus, Endemic Typhus) Flea-borne (also known as “murine” or “endemic”) typhus is a rickettsial disease caused by Rickettsia typhi. Infected fleas carried by rats, opossums, cats, dogs, and other small mammals can spread these bacteria. The disease is like louse-borne typhus ( R. prowazekii) but is generally ...

5. health.hawaii.gov › docd › disease_listingMurine Typhus | Disease Outbreak Control Division

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   Jul 21, 2022 · Murine typhus is a disease carried by rodents (rats, mice, mongoose) and spread to humans by fleas. It is caused by a bacteria called Rickettsia typhi. The fleas can also live on other small mammals, including pets, such as cats and dogs. Once a flea is infected, it can spread the disease for the rest of its life.

6. www.vdh.virginia.gov › typhusTyphus - Epidemiology - Virginia Department of Health

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   Murine typhus: Murine typhus, also called endemic typhus or flea-borne typhus, is a disease caused by a bacteria called Rickettsia typhi. Murine typhus is spread to people through contact with infected fleas. People get sick with murine typhus when infected flea feces are rubbed into cuts or scrapes in the skin.