Emerging bacterial zoonotic and vector-borne diseases. Ecological and epidemiological factors

Identification of a granulocytotropic Ehrlichia species as the etiologic agent of human disease

1994 • 981 citations

The Biological and Social Phenomenon of Lyme Disease

1993 • 624 citations

Different Genospecies of Borrelia burgdorferi Are Associated with Distinct Clinical Manifestations of Lyme Borreliosis

1993 • 563 citations

Serological response to "Rochalimaea henselae" antigen in suspected cat-scratch disease

1992 • 543 citations

Ehrlichia chaffeensis, a new species associated with human ehrlichiosis

1991 • 530 citations

Cat Scratch Disease in Connecticut -- Epidemiology, Risk Factors, and Evaluation of a New Diagnostic Test

1993 • 521 citations

Human granulocytic ehrlichiosis in the upper Midwest United States. A new species emerging?

1994 • 463 citations

Lyme Borreliosis: Relation of Its Causative Agent to Its Vectors and Hosts in North America and Europe

1991 • 458 citations

Rochalimaea henselae infection. A new zoonosis with the domestic cat as reservoir

1994 • 443 citations

Clinical and Laboratory Characteristics of Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis

1996 • 441 citations

Rochalimaea elizabethae sp. nov. isolated from a patient with endocarditis

1993 • 424 citations

Isolation and characterization of an Ehrlichia sp. from a patient diagnosed with human ehrlichiosis

1991 • 387 citations

Bartonella (Rochalimaea) quintanaEndocarditis in Three Homeless Men

1995 • 356 citations

Ixodes dammini as a Potential Vector of Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis

1995 • 341 citations

Human Ehrlichiosis in the United States, 1985 to 1990

1994 • 322 citations

Syndrome of Rochalimaea henselae Adenitis Suggesting Cat Scratch Disease

1993 • 305 citations

Bartonella (Rochalimaea) quintanaBacteremia in Inner-City Patients with Chronic Alcoholism

1995 • 258 citations

Identification of a novel rickettsial infection in a patient diagnosed with murine typhus

1994 • 257 citations

Amblyomma americanum: a Potential Vector of Human Ehrlichiosis

1993 • 247 citations

Antibiotic therapy for cat-scratch disease: clinical study of therapeutic outcome in 268 patients and a review of the literature.

1992 • 243 citations

Lyme Disease in California: a Novel Enzootic Transmission Cycle of Borrelia burgdorferi

1992 • 236 citations

Cat Scratch Disease, Bacillary Angiomatosis, and Other Infections Due to Rochalimaea

1994 • 225 citations

Endocarditis in a dog due to infection with a novel Bartonella subspecies

1995 • 220 citations

Experimental Transmission of Ehrlichia chaffeensis (Rickettsiales: Ehrlichieae) Among White-Tailed Deer by Amblyomma americanum (Acari: Ixodidae)

1995 • 206 citations

The Epidemiology of Bacillary Angiomatosis and Bacillary Peliosis

1993 • 202 citations

Susceptibility of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) to infection with Ehrlichia chaffeensis, the etiologic agent of human ehrlichiosis

1994 • 190 citations

Geographic, clinical, serologic, and molecular evidence of granulocytic ehrlichiosis, a likely zoonotic disease, in Minnesota and Wisconsin dogs

1996 • 184 citations

Cat-Transmitted Fatal Pneumonic Plague in a Person who Traveled from Colorado to Arizona

1994 • 183 citations

Typhus and typhuslike rickettsiae associated with opossums and their fleas in Los Angeles County, California

1992 • 178 citations

Genetic characterization and transovarial transmission of a typhus-like rickettsia found in cat fleas.

1992 • 155 citations

Human Ehrlichiosis in the United States

1990 • 154 citations

Rickettsia japonica sp. nov., the Etiological Agent of Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiosis in Japan

1992 • 143 citations

Intraerythrocytic presence of Bartonella henselae

1995 • 143 citations

Human ehrlichiosis: Hematopathology and immunohistologic detection of Ehrlichia chaffeensis

1993 • 135 citations

Hemocytic rickettsia-like organisms in ticks: serologic reactivity with antisera to Ehrlichiae and detection of DNA of agent of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis by PCR

1995 • 132 citations

Genotypic and antigenic identification of two new strains of spotted fever group rickettsiae isolated from China

1993 • 129 citations

Human Ehrlichiosis in Adults after Tick Exposure: Diagnosis Using Polymerase Chain Reaction

1994 • 127 citations

Ehrlichiosis in a Golf-Oriented Retirement Community

1995 • 126 citations

Identification of the causative agent of granulocytic ehrlichiosis in Swedish dogs and horses by direct solid phase sequencing of PCR products from the 16S rRNA gene

1995 • 119 citations

Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis in Connecticut: Report of a Fatal Case

1995 • 118 citations

Transmission and Passage in Horses of the Agent of Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis

1995 • 112 citations

Epidemiologic and Diagnostic Studies of Patients with Suspected Early Lyme Disease, Missouri, 1990-1993

1995 • 110 citations

Human Ehrlichiosis: Prospective Active Surveillance in Febrile Hospitalized Patients

1989 • 105 citations

Protection against Ehrlichia equi is conferred by prior infection with the human granulocytotropic Ehrlichia (HGE agent)

1995 • 100 citations

Rickettsialpox in a New York City Hospital, 1980 to 1989

1994 • 94 citations

Isolation and transmission of the Lyme disease spirochete from the southeastern United States.

1993 • 90 citations

Discovery Of An Enzootic Cycle Of Borrelia Burgdorferi In Neotoma Mexicana And Ixodes Spinipalpis From Northern Colorado, An Area Where Lyme Disease Is Nonendemic

1994 • 89 citations

Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis in Massachusetts

1995 • 80 citations

Flinders Island spotted fever: a newly recognised endemic focus of tick typhus in Bass Strait: Part 1. Clinical and epidemiological features

1991 • 79 citations

TICK-BORNE RICKETTSIAE OF THE SPOTTED FEVER GROUP IN WEST PAKISTAN

1973 • 79 citations

A Clinico-Epidemiological Study of Epidemic Typhus in Africa

1992 • 76 citations

Evaluation of Ixodes scapularis, Amblyomma americanum, and Dermacentor variabilis (Acari: Ixodidae) from Georgia as Vectors of a Florida Strain of the Lyme Disease Spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi

1995 • 69 citations

Vector Competence of Ixodes pacificus and Dermacentor occidentalis (Acari: Ixodidae) for Various Isolates of Lyme Disease Spirochetes

1994 • 69 citations

Antibiotic therapy for cat-scratch disease?

1989 • 65 citations

A Case of Human Ehrlichiosis Acquired in Mali: Clinical and Laboratory Findings

1992 • 63 citations

Multivariate Morphometric Discrimination of Nymphal and Adult Forms of the Blacklegged Tick (Acari: Ixodidae), a Principal Vector of the Agent of Lyme Disease in Eastern North America

1995 • 61 citations

Epizootiology of Lyme disease-causing borreliae

1993 • 59 citations

First Cases of Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiosis in Thailand

1994 • 57 citations

Human Ehrlichiosis in Oklahoma

1989 • 56 citations

A new pathogenic spotted fever group rickettsia from Africa.

1994 • 54 citations

Seroepidemiology of spotted fever group rickettsial infections in humans in Zimbabwe.

1991 • 53 citations

Detection of Ehrlichia chaffeensis in human tissue by using a species-specific monoclonal antibody

1993 • 51 citations

Efficiency of Transovarial Transmission of the Lyme Disease Spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, in the Western Blacklegged Tick, Ixodes pacificus (Acari: Ixodidae)

1993 • 51 citations

Natural Occurrence and Characterization of the Lyme Disease Spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, in Cotton Rats (Sigmodon hispidus) from Georgia and Florida

1995 • 48 citations

Comparative Antigenic Analysis of Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiae from Israel and other Closely Related Organisms

1995 • 45 citations

Lyme and/or Lyme-like disease in Missouri.

1995 • 43 citations

Characterization and comparison of Australian human spotted fever group rickettsiae

1992 • 42 citations

Feline plague in New Mexico: risk factors and transmission to humans.

1988 • 39 citations

Studies of a ?new? rickettsiosis ?Astrakhan? spotted fever

1991 • 36 citations

Rickettsia japonica, the Etiologic Agent of Oriental Spotted Fever

1993 • 34 citations

Serosurveys of spotted fever and murine typhus in local residents of Taiwan and Thailand compared with Japan.

1993 • 33 citations

Isolation of a spotted fever group rickettsia from a patient and related ecologic investigations in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China

1987 • 32 citations

Transmission of Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis

1995 • 32 citations

Rickettsial and Serologic Evidence for Prevalent Spotted Fever Rickettsiosis in Inner Mongolia

1987 • 25 citations

Serologic Survey of Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiosis on Hainan Island of China

1991 • 18 citations

Importance of Systematics to Public Health: Ticks, Microbes, and Disease

1996 • 12 citations

Lyme Disease: The Cause, the Cure, the Controversy

1996 • 10 citations

Lyme disease with concurrent ehrlichiosis

1994 • 9 citations

Serologic Survey for Antibodies to Rickettsia sibirica in Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China

1990 • 8 citations

Simultaneous Infection with an Ehrlichia and Borrelia burgdorferi in a Child

1990 • 6 citations

Arthropod Research in the Southeastern U.S.

1995 • 3 citations