Queensland tick typhus

Queensland tick typhus
Specialty Infectious disease

Queensland tick typhus[1] (or Australian tick typhus or (Rickettsial) spotted fever[2]) is a condition caused by a bacterium Rickettsia australis.[3]

It is transmitted by Ixodes holocyclus and Ixodes tasmani.[4]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on December 6, 2010. Retrieved 2011-01-09. , (unattributed material, possibly unedited translation)
  2. ↑ Spotted fevers, Department of Medical Entomology, University of Sydney
  3. ↑ Rapini, Ronald P.; Bolognia, Jean L.; Jorizzo, Joseph L. (2007). Dermatology: 2-Volume Set. St. Louis: Mosby. p. 1130. ISBN 1-4160-2999-0.
  4. ↑ "MerckMedicus : Dorland's Medical Dictionary".
Classification


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.