What is rickettsiosis?
The term ricketsiosis or rickettsial disease is used to describe several types of diseases caused by various bacterial infections and different symptoms in the range of relatively mild to very serious. Examples of rickettsial diseases are epidemic and endemic typhoid fever and fever with rock mountain. Different types of rickettsiosis are caused by different types of bacteria, which belong mainly to the genus Rickettsia, and are transmitted to people by fleas, ticks, mites or lice. Common symptoms of rickettsiosis include fever, headache, gastrointestinal problems, skin rash, skin lesions, joint pain and muscle pain. Treatment varies depending on a specific disease and often includes antibiotics and steroids. Bacteria causing rickettsial diseases first discovered in 1909 Howard Ricketts, an American scientist, and are named after him. All bacteria causing rickettsiosis are intracellular bacteria, which means they live inside the body cells. These bacteria have properties thatIt makes infections difficult that causes difficult to diagnose standard medical tests such as blood tests, and diagnosis is often based on observing symptoms rather than on laboratory analysis.
people are usually infected with rickettsiosis when ticks or mites are bitten by rickettsia bacteria or inhaling stools infected with lice or fleas. Depending on the disease causes specific types of bacteria, it may take one to three weeks before the infected person has any symptoms. Some ricketsial diseases such as epidemic Typehus, Scrub Typehus and fever with Rocky Mountain have very serious symptoms and high mortality. Others, such as endemic Typehus and Rickettsialpox, have only mild to medium symptoms and rarely cause death.
rickettsial diseases occur all over the world, but some bacteria species occurOsids in specific regions, which means that the infections they cause occur only there. For example, in America, there is no scrubbing of typhoid, and some types of spotted fever occur only in specific countries or continents such as Japan, Australia or Africa. All over the world, however, are the two most famous types of rickettsiosis, endemic typhoid and epidemic typhoid.
Theprevention of rickettsiosis focuses mainly on the removal of organisms that transmit infection people. Good general hygiene, delous, removal of ticks and ticks. Rodent control is also considered important because infected fleas often live on rodents before they are transmitted to humans.