Background Emerging and re-emerging spotted fever group (SFG) rickettsioses are
increasingly recognised worldwide as threats to public health, yet their global distribution …

Rickettsia species causing human illness are present globally and can cause significant
disease. Diagnosis and identification of this intracellular bacteria are challenging with many …

Ticks are hematophagous ectoparasites capable of transmitting multiple human pathogens.
Environmental changes have supported the expansion of ticks into new geographical areas …

Our understanding of free-living bacterial models like Escherichia coli far outpaces that of
obligate intracellular bacteria, which cannot be cultured axenically. All obligate intracellular …

Background Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) affect most impoverished communities in
developing countries, like Myanmar in Southeast Asia. NTDs have been understudied and …

Rickettsial diseases (RD) are widely reported all over the world. Scrub typhus (ST) is a major
tropical infection which is well documented all over India. Therefore, the index of suspicion …

Flea-borne diseases are endemic in Texas, USA, with an increasing incidence of flea-borne
typhus and cat scratch disease. Knowledge of flea natural history could provide information …

Rickettsia is an important pathogenic entity among tick-borne diseases (TBD), which are
considered serious emerging public health problems globally. In India, though the …

Human lice have always been a major public health concern due to their vector capacity for
louse-borne infectious diseases, trench fever, louse-borne relapsing fever, and epidemic …

Ticks are widespread parasites of vertebrates and major vectors of pathogens to humans,
domestic animals, and wildlife. In southern Africa, numerous tick species transmit diseases …