Rickettsioses (5 contents)
Researchers from Olomouc and Brno in the Czech Republic have mapped the incidence of four lesser-known tick-borne infections that can threaten the health and even the lives of immunocompromised...
Rickettsioses are caused by rickettsiae - bacteria that multiply intracellularly. Humans are the indirect host of rickettsioses, as their direct hosts are ticks, lice and fleas. Infection occurs when...