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.

Figure 1. Quantitative analysis of AAV transgene potency using the Leo System. (A) Electropherogram traces of GFP transgene expression in control (solid blue line) and thermally stressed (dashed ...

The Center for Disease Control, which partners and helps fund NEWVEC, recognized the recently-published paper and believes the new Rickettsia strain should be its own species, Rich said.

In March, the peak body for salmon farming apologised for what it has called an "unprecedented" mass mortality event in Tasmania's south-east after fish were impacted by a rickettsia bacterial ...

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Typhus fevers are a group of diseases caused by rickettsia bacteria infection ... This type of infection is caused by the Orientia tsutsugamushi bacteria, which is spread by chiggers or larvae mites.

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Background: Metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) has been widely reported to provide crucial information for the diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases. In this study, we aimed to ...

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: The prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) has increased in the recent decades, along with the number of patients in the terminal stages of this disease, requiring ...