Pacific Coast tick fever

Pacific Coast tick fever
Pacific Coast tick fever
Causes	Rickettsia philipii spread by the Pacific coast tick
Differential diagnosis	Rickettsia parkeri rickettsiosis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, rickettsialpox

Pacific Coast tick fever
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Pseudomonadati
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Alphaproteobacteria
Order:	Rickettsiales
Family:	Rickettsiaceae
Genus:	Rickettsia
Species group:	Spotted fever group
Species:	R. philipii
Binomial name
	Rickettsia philipii; Kato et al. 2010

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2021-06-02 13:25

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Clinical

Pacific Coast tick fever is an infection caused by Rickettsia philipii.^[2] The disease is spread by the Pacific coast ticks.^[2] Symptoms may include an eschar.^[2] It is within a group known as spotted fever rickettsiosis together with Rickettsia parkeri rickettsiosis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and rickettsialpox.^[3] These infections can be difficult to tell apart.^[3]

↑ Kato, C.Y., Robinson, L.K., White, F.H., Slater, K., Karpathy, S.E., Eremeeva, M.E. and Dasch, G.A. "Insertion/deletion (INDEL) typing of isolates of Rickettsia rickettsii." Georgia Research Alliance Collaboration Roundtable. February 26, 2010. Poster Abstracts no. 10. pp. 5-6
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 "Spotted Fever Group Rickettsia (Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and Pacific Coast Tick Fever)". www.cdph.ca.gov. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 "Epidemiology and Statistics Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (RMSF)". CDC. 26 October 2018. Retrieved 19 January 2019.

Pacific Coast tick fever
Causes	Rickettsia philipii spread by the Pacific coast tick^[2]
Differential diagnosis	Rickettsia parkeri rickettsiosis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, rickettsialpox^[3]