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- Stephen Graves and John Stenos.
- Director, Australian Rickettsial Reference Laboratory, Geelong, Victoria, Australia. Stephen.graves@hnehealth.nsw.gov.au
- Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 2009 May 1; 1166: 151-5.
AbstractThe rickettsial diseases of Australia are described in their chronological order of discovery. The include epidemic typhus (R. prowazekii); murine typhus (R. typhi) found Australia-wide; scrub typhus (O. tsutsugamushi) only in tropical, northen Australia; Q. fever (C. burnetti) found Australia-wide; Queensland tick typhus (R. australis) along the east coast of Australia; Flinders Island spotted fever (R. honei) in southeast Australia; Variant Flinders Island spotted fever (R. honei, strain "marmionii") in eastern Australia; Rickettsia felis, Western Australia; eight new RFG rickettsiae from ticks (of unknown pathogenicity); and two nonhuman pathogens in A. platys (dogs) and A. marginale (cattle).
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