Serological Survey for Murine Typhus Infection in Southwest Georgia Animals

Morlan, H. B.; Hill, Elmer L.; Schubert, Joseph H.

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“…The percentage found positive here (0.34 percent) is low compared with percentages of hlouse mice found positive elsewhere by other workers (2)(3)(4). In this instance it should be remnembered that in Mississippi mice which actually had a chance for exposure to infected rat ectoparasites were trapped from premises where intensive DDT dusting had been conducted annually for several years.…”

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The House Mouse and Murine Typhus in Mississippi

Smith¹

1954

Public Health Reports (1896-1970)

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The House Mouse and Murine Typhus in Mississippi

Smith¹

1954

Public Health Reports (1896-1970)

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“…Although these rodents may not be directly consequential to human FBT, they help maintain the causative organisms in nature. Subsequently, rabbits, other squirrels, woodchucks, cats, dogs, and skunks were found to be susceptible, whereas raccoons and foxes were resistant [123,125]. In 1941, Brigham isolated FBT rickettsiae from chicken fleas obtained from rats on a GA farm with a farmer ill with FBT [126].…”

Section: The Epidemiology and Ecology Of Flea-borne Typhus Is Deducedmentioning

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History, Rats, Fleas, and Opossums: The Ascendency of Flea-Borne Typhus in the United States, 1910–1944

Anstead

2020

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Flea-borne typhus, due to Rickettsia typhi and Rickettsia felis, is an infection causing fever, headache, rash, hepatitis, thrombocytopenia, and diverse organ manifestations. Although most cases are self-limited, 26%-28% have complications and up to one-third require intensive care. Flea-borne typhus was recognized as an illness similar to epidemic typhus, but having a milder course, in the Southeastern United States and TX from 1913 into the 1920s. Kenneth Maxcy of the US Public Health Service (USPHS) first described the illness in detail and proposed a rodent reservoir and an arthropod vector. Other investigators of the USPHS (

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“…Murine typhus in animals other than commen¬ sal rats was studied by Morlan and associates (26). Serums from 3,202 animals representing 37 species were tested by complement fixation, and 47 from 12 species were positive.…”

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Murine Typhus Investigations in Southwestern Georgia: A Review

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Smith²

1960

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EFFORTS to control murine typhus fever in the southeastern United States, although overshadowed by accomplishments in the con¬ trol of malaria, have achieved results which are almost as spectacular. An outstanding reduction of murine typhus transmission was accomplished within 25 years after the role of the rat and rat flea as host and vector of murine typhus was first suggested by Maxcy in 1926 (1) on the basis of epidemiological studies in Alabama and Georgia and validated in 1931 by Dyer, Rumreich, and Badger (#), who isolated the pathogen from fleas collected from wild rats.The introduction of DDT, an insecticide with prolonged residual toxicity, into typhus control programs in 1945 and of anticoagulant rat poison in 1947 provided the tools with which the control of murine typhus was finally ac¬ complished (fig. 1).Incidence of the disease always has been greatest in the southeastern section of the coun¬ try (fig. 2). Reported cases from 10 of the southeastern States rose from 1,799 in 1940 to 5,292 in 1944. Studies by Hill and co-workers

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Serological Survey for Murine Typhus Infection in Southwest Georgia Animals

Cited by 14 publications

References 13 publications

The House Mouse and Murine Typhus in Mississippi

The House Mouse and Murine Typhus in Mississippi

History, Rats, Fleas, and Opossums: The Ascendency of Flea-Borne Typhus in the United States, 1910–1944

Murine Typhus Investigations in Southwestern Georgia: A Review

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