Medically reviewed by Anju Goel, MD Typhus fevers are a group of diseases caused by rickettsia bacteria infection. Typhus is transferred to humans by an infected animal. Typical carriers include ...

New Delhi: Rural communities are at high risk of potentially life-threatening scrub typhus infections, according to a study ...

Scrub typhus, also known as tsutsugamushi disease, is an infectious illness caused by Orientia (Rickettsia) tsutsugamushi, transmitted to humans and rodents by the bite of the larv ...

The discovery of Rickettsia sp. ME2023 is a key piece of a puzzle that scientists at the UMass Amherst-based New England Center of Excellence in Vector-borne Diseases (NEWVEC) are pondering.

Scrub typhus spreads when chiggers - mites found in forests, and now, urban shrubs - bite the person and inject a microorganism called rickettsia tsutsugamushi into the blood. A blood test can ...

A subcohort of participants underwent blood sampling to estimate the incidence of serologically confirmed Orientia tsutsugamushi infection. We systematically assessed 32,279 participants from 7619 ...

It spreads when chiggers,which are mites found in forests, and now in urban shrubs, bite the person and inject a microorganism called rickettsia tsutsugamushi into the blood. “Farmers ...

He found that 6.1% of 296 rabbit ticks collected from 38 towns across nine counties in Maine tested positive for the new Rickettsia genotype. “This wasn’t a needle in a haystack,” Rich says.