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.

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.

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The new bacteria, Rickettsia sp. ME2023, can cause spotted fever rickettsioses in humans, including Rocky Mountain spotted fever, which has a death rate of 20 to 30 percent if not treated promptly ...

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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While conducting this research, Rich stumbled upon a new strain of “Rickettsia” bacteria– something that causes spotted fever infections. “It was somewhat of a serendipitous finding,” he ...

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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.