Tag: serology

Epidemiological and Clinical Features of Rickettsial Infection Among Australian Individuals from 2015 to 2018

Rickettsial Infection Among Australian

Announcing a new article publication for Zoonoses journal. In this study, the clinical, laboratory and epidemiological features of rickettsial infection in Australian patients were examined. Patients with Rickettsia spp. seropositivity were selected from the database of the Australian Rickettsial Reference Laboratory. Questionnaires were sent to each referring physician with a request for information regarding the patient’s illness. […]

Scrub Typhus Diagnostics: The Present and the Future

Scrub Typhus Diagnostics

Announcing a new article publication for Zoonoses journal. Scrub typhus, caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi, is a vector-borne, zoonotic disease commonly occurring in a geographic region known as the ‘tsutsugamushi triangle’. Scrub typhus causes acute undifferentiated febrile illness (AUFI) with non-specific clinical features and is difficult to diagnose when a highly characteristic but not pathognomonic eschar is […]