RICKETTSIALPOX
- 17 December 1949
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 141 (16) , 1119-1123
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02910160009003
Abstract
During the warm seasons, physicians throughout the United States should be alerted to a recently recognized murine rickettsial disease, known as rickettsialpox, which to date has been reported only from the city of New York. Because the disease is harbored by the common house mouse (Mus musculus), is transferred to humans by the rodent mite (Allodermanyssus sanguineous) and because it has not subsided in incidence in the New York area for the past two years, the possibility of the spread of rickettsialpox to other cities is highly probable. The first cases of rickettsialpox1were discovered in the spring of 1946 among a group of persons residing in a housing development in the Queens section of New York. Since then about 150 cases a year, from Queens and three other boroughs, have been reported to the New York City Department of Health. N[ill] fatalities have been recorded. The causative agentKeywords
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