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Rickettsialpox
Associated persons:
Howard Taylor Ricketts
Description:
An acute, communicable, self-limited febrile disease associated with a varicelliform rash. The lesions are smaller than in smallpox, deeper and randomly distributed. Prominent symptoms are fever, chills and headache. It is caused by Rickettsia akari and transmitted from the house mouse to man by a small colourless mite, Allodermanyssus sanguineus. The disease was first Observed in 1946 when it became epidemic in a New York City Housing development.
Bibliography:
- R. J. Huebner, P. Stamps and C. Armstrong:
Rickettsialpox–A newly recognized rickettsial disease. I. Isolation of the etiological agent.
Public Health Reports, Rockville, Maryland, 1946, 61: 1605-1614.
- Morris Greenberg, Ottavio J. Pellitteri, I. F. Klein, R. J. Huebner:
Rickettsialpox–A newly recognized rickettsial disease. II. Clinical observations.
The Journal of the American Medical Association, Chicago, 1947, 133: 901-906.
- Morris Greenberg, Ottavio J. Pellitteri, William. L. Jellison:
Rickettsialpox—a newly recognized rickettsial disease. III. Epidemiology.
American Journal of Public Health and the Nation's Health, New York, 1947b, 37: 860-868.
- R. J. Huebner, William L. Jellison, C. Pomeranz:
Rickettsialpox—a newly recognized rickettsial disease. IV. Isolation of a rickettsia apparently identical with the causative agent of rickettsialpox from Allodermanyssus sanguineus, a rodent mite.
Public Health Reports, Rockville, Maryland, 1946, 61: 1677-1682.
- R. J. Huebner, William L. Jellison, C. Pomeranz:
V. Recovery of a Rickettsia akari from a wild house mouse (Mus musculus).
Public Health Reports, 1947, 62: 777-780.
- M. Greenberg:
Rickettsialpox in New York City.
The American Journal of Medicine, New York, 1948, 4: 866-874.
- D. B. Lackman:
A review of information on rickettsialpox in the United States.
Clinical Pediatrics, Philadelphia, June 1963, 2: 296-301.
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