Brazilian spotted fever: a reemergent zoonosis

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Autor(a) principal: Greca,H.
Data de Publicação: 2008
Outros Autores: Langoni,H., Souza,L.C.
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: The Journal of venomous animals and toxins including tropical diseases (Online)
Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1678-91992008000100002
Resumo: Brazilian spotted fever is caused by the bacterium Rickettsia rickettsii, which is the most pathogenic species of the spotted-fever rickettsiae group and is transmitted by the bite of infected ticks. Amblyomma cajennense is the most important tick species involved in the cycle of this zoonosis in Brazil as it presents low host specificity, great number of natural reservoirs and wide geographic distribution. It was first described in the state of São Paulo in 1929 and later in Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais and Bahia. The number of cases decreased in the 1940's with the development of new plague control techniques and antibiotics. In the last decades, the number of new cases has increased. The current review aimed at reporting some of the epidemiological and public health aspects of this reemergent disease with new foci, mainly in the southeastern region of Brazil.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Brazilian spotted fever: a reemergent zoonosis
title Brazilian spotted fever: a reemergent zoonosis
spellingShingle Brazilian spotted fever: a reemergent zoonosis
Greca,H.
Brazilian spotted fever
Rickettsia rickettsii
Amblyomma cajennense
title_short Brazilian spotted fever: a reemergent zoonosis
title_full Brazilian spotted fever: a reemergent zoonosis
title_fullStr Brazilian spotted fever: a reemergent zoonosis
title_full_unstemmed Brazilian spotted fever: a reemergent zoonosis
title_sort Brazilian spotted fever: a reemergent zoonosis
author Greca,H.
author_facet Greca,H.
Langoni,H.
Souza,L.C.
author_role author
author2 Langoni,H.
Souza,L.C.
author2_role author
author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Greca,H.
Langoni,H.
Souza,L.C.
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Brazilian spotted fever
Rickettsia rickettsii
Amblyomma cajennense
topic Brazilian spotted fever
Rickettsia rickettsii
Amblyomma cajennense
description Brazilian spotted fever is caused by the bacterium Rickettsia rickettsii, which is the most pathogenic species of the spotted-fever rickettsiae group and is transmitted by the bite of infected ticks. Amblyomma cajennense is the most important tick species involved in the cycle of this zoonosis in Brazil as it presents low host specificity, great number of natural reservoirs and wide geographic distribution. It was first described in the state of São Paulo in 1929 and later in Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais and Bahia. The number of cases decreased in the 1940's with the development of new plague control techniques and antibiotics. In the last decades, the number of new cases has increased. The current review aimed at reporting some of the epidemiological and public health aspects of this reemergent disease with new foci, mainly in the southeastern region of Brazil.
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