title: [Today's threat of rickettsioses].
abstract: Rickettsioses are infectious diseases transmitted to human by arthropodes, characterized by different clinical manifestation, from subclinical symptoms, through the mild virus-like infection to severe disease with multiorgan complications. Rickettsiosis include typhus, spotted fevers, anaplasmosis, bartonellosis and Q fever. In some of these diseases respiratory symptoms predominate (i.e. acute Q fever), where as one do not occure in the others at all. Rickettsiosis treatment is based usually on the use of tetracycline antibiotics.
authors: Military Institute of Medicine in Warsaw, Central Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of National Defense, Department of Internal Medicine, Pneumonology and Allergology. iza.toczyska@wp.pl
authors: Izabela
authors: I
authors: Toczyska
authors: Tomasz
authors: T
authors: Targowski
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D012282:Rickettsia Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000382:microbiology*; D013752:Tetracycline / Q000627:therapeutic use
chemical_list: D013752:Tetracycline