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Mumcuoglu KY, Frish K, Sarov M, Mannor E, Gross E, Gat Z, Galun R, 1993. Ecological studies on the brown dog tick Rhicephalus sanguineus (Acri: Ixodidae) in Southern Israel and its relationship to spotted fever group rickettsiae. J Med Entomol 30 :114–121.
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Walker DH, Feng HM, Saada JI, Crocquet-Valdes P, Radulovic S, Popov VL, Manor E, 1995. Comparative antigenic analysis of spotted fever group rickettsiae from Israel and other closely related orgaisms. Am J Trop Med Hyg 52 :569–575.
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Guberman D, Mumcuoglu KY, Keysary A, Ioffe-Uspensky I, Miller J, Galun R, 1996. Prevalence of spotted fever group rickettsiae in ticks from southern Israel. J Med Entomol 33 :979–982.
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Raoult D, Wieller PJ, Chagnon A, Chaudet H, Gallais H, Casanova P, 1986. Mediterreanean spotted fever: Clinical, laboratory and epidemiological features of 199 cases. Am J Trop Med Hyg 35 :845–850.
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Zhu Y, Fournier PE, Eremeeva M, Raoult D, 2005. Proposal to create subspecies of Rickettsia conorii based on multilocus sequence typing and an emended description of Rickettsia conorii. BMC Microbiol 5 :1–11.
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Wolach B, Franco S, Bogger-Goren S, Drucker M, Goldwasser RA, Sadan N, Bernheim J, 1989. Clinical and laboratory findings of spotted fever in Israeli children. Pediatr Infect Dis J 8 :152–155.
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Gross EM, Arbeli Y, Bearman JE, Yagupsky P, Cohar K, Torok V, Goldwasser RA, 1984. Spotted fever and murine typhus in the Negev region of Israel, 1981. Bull. W.H.O. 62 :301–306.
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Goldwasser RA, Klinberg MA, Klinberg W, Steinman Y, Swartz TA, 1974. Laboratory and epidemiologic studies of rickettsial spotted fever in Israel. Frontiers of internal medicine. Proceedings of the 12th International Congress of Internal Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel, September 1974.
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Espejo-Arenas E, Font-Creus B, Alegra-Segura MD, Segura-Porta F, Bella-Cueto F, 1990. Seroepidemiological survey of Mediterranean spotted fever in endemic area (Valles Occidental, Barcelona, Spain). Trop Geogr Med 42 :212–216.
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Tesouro MA, Bacellar F, Sainz A, Filipe A, 1998. Persistence of antibodies to Rickettsia conorii in dogs. Ann N Y Acad Sci 849 :441–443.
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Raoult D, 1991. Rickettsioses in the Mediterranean—a problem for travellers. Rev. Med. Microbiol. 2 :115–120.
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Kelly PJ, Mathewman LA, Mason PR, Courtney S, Katsande C, Rukwava J, 1992. Experimental infection of dogs with Zimbabwean strain of Rickettsia conorii. Am J Trop Med Hyg 95 :322–326.
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Solano-Gallego L, Kidd L, Trotta M, Di Marco M, Caldin M, Furlanello T, Breitschwerdt E, 2006. Febrile illness associated with Rickettsia conorii infection in dogs from Sicily. Emerg Infect Dis 12 :1985–1988.
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Yagupsky P, Wolach B, 1993. Fatal Israeli spotted fever in children. Clin Infect Dis 17 :850–853.
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Punda-Polic V, Klismanic Z, Capkun V, Bradaric N, 2003. Demographic and epidemiologic features of Mediterranean spotted fever cases in the region of Split, Croatia. Ann N Y Acad Sci 990 :143–148.
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Aharonowitz G, Koton S, Segal S, Anis E, Green MS, 1999. Epidemiological characteristics of Spotted Fever in Israel over 26 years. Clin Infect Dis 29 :1321–1322.
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Keysary A, Torten DN, Gross EM, Torten M, 1988. Prevalence of antibodies to Rickettsia conorii in dogs in Israel and its relation to outbreaks in man. Isr. J. Vet. Med. 44 :103–107.
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Baneth G, Breitschwerdt EB, Hegarty BC, Pappalardo B, Ryan J, 1998. A survey of tickborne bacteria and protozoa in naturally exposed dogs from Israel. Vet Parasitol 74 :133–142.
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Segura-Porta F, Diestre-Ortin G, Ortuno-Romero A, Sanfeliu-Sala I, Font-Creus B, Munoz-Espin T, de Antonio EM, Casal-Fabrega J, 1998. Prevalence of antibodies to spotted fever group rickettsiae in human beings and dogs from and endemic area of mediterranean spotted fever in Catalonia, Spain. Eur J Epidemiol 14 :395–398.
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Mannelli A, Mandola ML, Pedri P, Tripoli M, Nebbia P, 2003. Associations between dogs that were serologically positive for Rickettsia conorii relative to the residences of two human cases of Mediterranean spotted fever in Piemonte (Italy). Prev Vet Med 60 :13–26.
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Galvao MAM, Cardoso LD, Mafra CL, Calic SB, Walker DH, 2006. Revisiting Brazilian spotted fever focus of Caratinga, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1078 :255–256.
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Philip RN, Casper EA, Ormsbee RA, Peacock MG, Burgdorfer W, 1976. Microimmunofluorescence test for the serological study of rocky mountain spotted fever and typhus. J Clin Microbiol 3 :51–61.
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Bauer O, Baneth G, Eshkol T, Shaw SE, Harrus S, 2006. Polygenic detection of Rickettsia felis in cat fleas (Ctenocephalides felis) from Israel. Am J Trop Med Hyg 74 :444–448.
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Rickettsia conorii in Humans and Dogs: A Seroepidemiologic Survey of Two Rural Villages in Israel
Shimon Harrus
Shimon Harrus
School of Veterinary Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel; University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Carmel Medical Center and the Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel; Dana Children’s Hospital, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel; Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness Ziona, Israel
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Yael Lior
Yael Lior
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Moshe Ephros
Moshe Ephros
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Galia Grisaru-Soen
Galia Grisaru-Soen
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Avi Keysary
Avi Keysary
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Carmella Strenger
Carmella Strenger
School of Veterinary Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel; University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Carmel Medical Center and the Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel; Dana Children’s Hospital, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel; Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness Ziona, Israel
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Frans Jongejan
Frans Jongejan
School of Veterinary Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel; University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Carmel Medical Center and the Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel; Dana Children’s Hospital, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel; Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness Ziona, Israel
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Trevor Waner
Trevor Waner
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Gad Baneth
Gad Baneth
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The prevalence of IgG-antibodies reactive with an Israeli strain of Rickettsia conorii (Israeli strain 487), the agent of Israeli spotted fever, was examined in humans and dogs from two rural villages in Israel where the disease has been reported in humans. Sixty-nine of 85 (81%) canine sera and 14 of 136 (10%) of human sera had anti-R. conorii antibodies. No direct association could be made between seropositivity of people and ownership of a seropositive dog. This study indicates that exposure to spotted fever group rickettsiae was highly prevalent among dogs compared with humans in the two villages examined, probably reflecting a greater exposure rate of canines to the tick vector. These results support a previous suggestion that canine serology could be a sensitive indicator for the presence and magnitude of human exposure to R. conorii.
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Mumcuoglu KY, Frish K, Sarov M, Mannor E, Gross E, Gat Z, Galun R, 1993. Ecological studies on the brown dog tick Rhicephalus sanguineus (Acri: Ixodidae) in Southern Israel and its relationship to spotted fever group rickettsiae. J Med Entomol 30 :114–121.
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2
Walker DH, Feng HM, Saada JI, Crocquet-Valdes P, Radulovic S, Popov VL, Manor E, 1995. Comparative antigenic analysis of spotted fever group rickettsiae from Israel and other closely related orgaisms. Am J Trop Med Hyg 52 :569–575.
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3
Guberman D, Mumcuoglu KY, Keysary A, Ioffe-Uspensky I, Miller J, Galun R, 1996. Prevalence of spotted fever group rickettsiae in ticks from southern Israel. J Med Entomol 33 :979–982.
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4
Raoult D, Wieller PJ, Chagnon A, Chaudet H, Gallais H, Casanova P, 1986. Mediterreanean spotted fever: Clinical, laboratory and epidemiological features of 199 cases. Am J Trop Med Hyg 35 :845–850.
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5
Zhu Y, Fournier PE, Eremeeva M, Raoult D, 2005. Proposal to create subspecies of Rickettsia conorii based on multilocus sequence typing and an emended description of Rickettsia conorii. BMC Microbiol 5 :1–11.
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6
Wolach B, Franco S, Bogger-Goren S, Drucker M, Goldwasser RA, Sadan N, Bernheim J, 1989. Clinical and laboratory findings of spotted fever in Israeli children. Pediatr Infect Dis J 8 :152–155.
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7
Gross EM, Arbeli Y, Bearman JE, Yagupsky P, Cohar K, Torok V, Goldwasser RA, 1984. Spotted fever and murine typhus in the Negev region of Israel, 1981. Bull. W.H.O. 62 :301–306.
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Goldwasser RA, Klinberg MA, Klinberg W, Steinman Y, Swartz TA, 1974. Laboratory and epidemiologic studies of rickettsial spotted fever in Israel. Frontiers of internal medicine. Proceedings of the 12th International Congress of Internal Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel, September 1974.
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9
Espejo-Arenas E, Font-Creus B, Alegra-Segura MD, Segura-Porta F, Bella-Cueto F, 1990. Seroepidemiological survey of Mediterranean spotted fever in endemic area (Valles Occidental, Barcelona, Spain). Trop Geogr Med 42 :212–216.
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10
Tesouro MA, Bacellar F, Sainz A, Filipe A, 1998. Persistence of antibodies to Rickettsia conorii in dogs. Ann N Y Acad Sci 849 :441–443.
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11
Raoult D, 1991. Rickettsioses in the Mediterranean—a problem for travellers. Rev. Med. Microbiol. 2 :115–120.
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12
Kelly PJ, Mathewman LA, Mason PR, Courtney S, Katsande C, Rukwava J, 1992. Experimental infection of dogs with Zimbabwean strain of Rickettsia conorii. Am J Trop Med Hyg 95 :322–326.
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13
Solano-Gallego L, Kidd L, Trotta M, Di Marco M, Caldin M, Furlanello T, Breitschwerdt E, 2006. Febrile illness associated with Rickettsia conorii infection in dogs from Sicily. Emerg Infect Dis 12 :1985–1988.
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14
Yagupsky P, Wolach B, 1993. Fatal Israeli spotted fever in children. Clin Infect Dis 17 :850–853.
-
15
Punda-Polic V, Klismanic Z, Capkun V, Bradaric N, 2003. Demographic and epidemiologic features of Mediterranean spotted fever cases in the region of Split, Croatia. Ann N Y Acad Sci 990 :143–148.
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16
Aharonowitz G, Koton S, Segal S, Anis E, Green MS, 1999. Epidemiological characteristics of Spotted Fever in Israel over 26 years. Clin Infect Dis 29 :1321–1322.
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17
Keysary A, Torten DN, Gross EM, Torten M, 1988. Prevalence of antibodies to Rickettsia conorii in dogs in Israel and its relation to outbreaks in man. Isr. J. Vet. Med. 44 :103–107.
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18
Baneth G, Breitschwerdt EB, Hegarty BC, Pappalardo B, Ryan J, 1998. A survey of tickborne bacteria and protozoa in naturally exposed dogs from Israel. Vet Parasitol 74 :133–142.
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19
Segura-Porta F, Diestre-Ortin G, Ortuno-Romero A, Sanfeliu-Sala I, Font-Creus B, Munoz-Espin T, de Antonio EM, Casal-Fabrega J, 1998. Prevalence of antibodies to spotted fever group rickettsiae in human beings and dogs from and endemic area of mediterranean spotted fever in Catalonia, Spain. Eur J Epidemiol 14 :395–398.
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20
Mannelli A, Mandola ML, Pedri P, Tripoli M, Nebbia P, 2003. Associations between dogs that were serologically positive for Rickettsia conorii relative to the residences of two human cases of Mediterranean spotted fever in Piemonte (Italy). Prev Vet Med 60 :13–26.
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21
Galvao MAM, Cardoso LD, Mafra CL, Calic SB, Walker DH, 2006. Revisiting Brazilian spotted fever focus of Caratinga, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1078 :255–256.
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22
Philip RN, Casper EA, Ormsbee RA, Peacock MG, Burgdorfer W, 1976. Microimmunofluorescence test for the serological study of rocky mountain spotted fever and typhus. J Clin Microbiol 3 :51–61.
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23
Bauer O, Baneth G, Eshkol T, Shaw SE, Harrus S, 2006. Polygenic detection of Rickettsia felis in cat fleas (Ctenocephalides felis) from Israel. Am J Trop Med Hyg 74 :444–448.
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