ReviewClinical microbiology reviews2013
Update on tick-borne rickettsioses around the world: a geographic approach.
Review in Clinical microbiology reviews, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 651 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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651 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 1,374 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Prevalence of Tick Infection with Bartonella in China: A Review and Meta-analysis.Acta parasitologica · 2024Pooled it
- Tick-Borne Diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review of Pathogens, Research Focus, and Implications for Public Health.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Pooled it
- Ticks (Ixodida) associated with bats (Chiroptera): an updated list with new records for Brazil.Parasitology research · 2023Pooled it
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- Microorganisms inInternational journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2026Article
- Molecular detection of Ehrlichia canis and Rickettsia rickettsii in tick-infested dogs from the city of Chihuahua, Mexico: phylogenetic analysis of the gp36 and ompA genes.Veterinary research communications · 2026Article
- Ticks and fleas of the critically endangered mountain pygmy-possum (International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2026Article
- Tick-borne pathogens in golden jackals (Canis aureus) from Armenia.Parasites & vectors · 2026Article
- Beyond Dominant Symbionts: Low-Abundance Taxa Govern Microbial Network Topology in Sympatric Ticks.Microbial ecology · 2026Article
- Vector-borne pathogen profiling and phylogeny of ticks infesting domestic dogs in Chad, Africa, using targeted next-generation sequencing and DNA barcoding.Parasites & vectors · 2026Article
591 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
Authors and funding
11 authors at 10 institutions in 5 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Tick-borne rickettsioses are caused by obligate intracellular bacteria belonging to the spotted fever group of the genus Rickettsia. These zoonoses are among the oldest known vector-borne diseases. However, in the past 25 years, the scope and importance of the recognized tick-associated rickettsial pathogens have increased dramatically, making this complex of diseases an ideal paradigm for the understanding of emerging and reemerging infections. Several species of tick-borne rickettsiae that were considered nonpathogenic for decades are now associated with human infections, and novel Rickettsia species of undetermined pathogenicity continue to be detected in or isolated from ticks around the world. This remarkable expansion of information has been driven largely by the use of molecular techniques that have facilitated the identification of novel and previously recognized rickettsiae in ticks. New approaches, such as swabbing of eschars to obtain material to be tested by PCR, have emerged in recent years and have played a role in describing emerging tick-borne rickettsioses. Here, we present the current knowledge on tick-borne rickettsiae and rickettsioses using a geographic approach toward the epidemiology of these diseases.
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