Five cases of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever were reported in dogs who have visited the Long Point area in the last month. What ...

This unit includes protocols for the laboratory maintenance of the obligate intracellular bacterium Rickettsia rickettsii, including propagation in mammalian cell cultures, as well as isolation, ...

Introduction:Rickettsia rickettsii is an obligate, intracellular pathogen and the causative agent of Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF). RMSF is an important zoonotic disease due to its high fatal ...

There are more than 25 species of tick-borne, spotted-fever group Rickettsia species worldwide, with R. rickettsii being one of the most virulent and dangerous.

Here, we investigate whether Rickettsia rickettsii-infected host endothelial cells resist the effects of staurosporine, a potent inducer of apoptosis, and we explore the mechanisms underlying the anti ...

Our finding of the rarity of Rickettsia rickettsii in New Jersey is good news, but we can't let our guard down." Rutgers researchers looked for the pathogen in two separate studies.

Brazilian spotted fever, caused by Rickettsia rickettsii, has been increasingly reported in Brazil especially in the southeastern states. The severe and fulminant forms of the disease are not unusual ...

For dogs, R. rickettsii is the only known spotted fever group Rickettsia that causes clinical disease in North America. Symptoms of RMSF in dogs and people are similar, including fever, lethargy ...

Abstract The bacterium Rickettsia rickettsii is the etiological agent of an acute, severe disease called Rocky Mountain spotted fever in the United States or Brazilian spotted fever (BSF) in Brazil.

Figure 1. Diagram illustrating experimental procedures with each of the six colonies of Amblyomma sculptum ticks from F 1 larvae to F 3 larvae. GL and GN ticks were exposed to Rickettsia rickettsii- ...