ReviewNature reviews. Microbiology2008
Emerging and re-emerging rickettsioses: endothelial cell infection and early disease events.
Review in Nature reviews. Microbiology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 179 papers.
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179 citing papers in PubMed, 298 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Apathy in the elderly: an atypical manifestation of spotted fever rickettsioses.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- The Paucity of Typical Pathology: An Autopsy Series of Typhus Group Rickettsiosis-Associated Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- Tickborne Neoehrlichia mikurensis in the Blood of Blood Donors, Norway, 2023.Emerging infectious diseases · 2025Article
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- Host glutathione is required for Rickettsia parkeri cell division and intracellular survival.Nature communications · 2025Article
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Abstract
Rickettsiae cause some of the most severe human infections, including epidemic typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Substantial progress has been made in research into the genomics, vector relationships, pathogenesis and immunity of these obligate, intracellular, arthropod-transmitted bacteria. This Review summarizes our understanding of the early and late events in pathogenesis and immunity, modulation of the host response to rickettsial infection by the vector, host defence, virulence mechanisms and rickettsial manipulation of host cells.
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