Just as the human body serves as a habitat for bacteria and other microbes, diverse, tiny organisms known as protists host ...

Rickettsia felis is an emerging pathogen primarily associated with flea-borne diseases, particularly those transmitted by the common cat flea, Ctenocephalides felis. This bacterium has gained ...

A team of biomolecular engineers, pathologists, and internal medicine specialists at the University of Texas Medical Branch, ...

The Lamason Lab studies R. parkeri as a model for infection of the more virulent Rickettsia rickettsii. R. rickettsii, carried and transmitted by ticks, causes Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.

The Tamil Nadu Health Department has issued an alert to district health officers as cases of scrub typhus continue to rise ...

Murine typhus is a flea-borne infectious disease caused by the bacterium Rickettsia typhi ... Additionally, a case report documented R. typhi infection in a clinically ill dog, emphasizing ...

In biology textbooks, the endoplasmic reticulum is often portrayed as a distinct, compact organelle near the nucleus, and is commonly known to be responsible for protein trafficking and secretion. In ...

SFRs vary in presentation, from mild to fatal, depending on the species of tick, however, early symptoms are non-specific.

Much of this depends on climate patterns. “The warmer it is, the more pests will thrive and the more populations we’ll see,” says Emma Grace Crumbley, an entomologist with Mosquito Squad Plus, a pest ...

Reports to date on the use of Chloromycetin in human infections have been confined to cases of rickettsial infections and typhoid fever. The purpose of this report is to present some of the ...

Tick-borne illnesses are on the rise and environmentalists are trying to find eco-friendly ways to combat ticks' ...