Bacterial culture was the first method used to describe the human microbiota, but this
method is considered outdated by many researchers. Metagenomics studies have since …

SUMMARY A pure bacterial culture remains essential for the study of its virulence, its
antibiotic susceptibility, and its genome sequence in order to facilitate the understanding …

This review examines the nexus of poverty, malnutrition and diseases in Africa, the
challenges, implications and their mitigation. The paper takes a critical look at available …

Many infectious diseases have emerged or reemerged in Africa in the 21st century. Some of
them are associated with newly discovered microorganisms such as Rickettsia felis and …

Rickettsia felis is an emerging insect-borne rickettsial pathogen and the causative agent of
flea-borne spotted fever. First described as a human pathogen from the USA in 1991, R. felis …

More than 75% of emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic in origin and a
transdisciplinary, multi-sectoral One Health approach is a key strategy for their effective …

A growing number of recent reports have implicated Rickettsia felis as a human pathogen,
paralleling the increasing detection of R. felis in arthropod hosts across the globe, primarily …

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

Rickettsia felis is an obligate intracellular bacterium that is different from other officially
recognized rickettsial species. It has multiple genes of different origins, an incubation …

Rickettsia felis is a spotted fever group rickettsia that has been definitely described in 2002.
Within the last 20 years, there have been a growing number of reports implicating R. felis as …