RT Book, Section
A1 Schutze, Gordon E.
A2 Kline, Mark W.
SR Print(0)
ID 1182937020
T1 Rickettsial Infections
T2 Rudolph's Pediatrics, 23e
YR 2018
FD 2018
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259588594
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1182937020
RD 2024/04/19
AB Rickettsial  infections  are  caused  by  pleomorphic  gram-negative  organisms  that  contain  both  DNA  and  RNA.  They  are  obligate  intracellular  parasites,  have  typical  bacterial  cell  walls  and  cytoplasmic  membranes,  and  divide  by  binary  fission.  The  order  Rickettsiales  includes  only  2  families,  the  Anaplasmataceae  and  the  Rickettsiaceae.  Ehrlichia  and  Anaplasma  species  are  from  the  family  Anaplasmataceae,  whereas  spotted  fever  and  the  typhus  group,  as  well  as  the  causative  agent  of  scrub  typhus  (Orientia  tsutsugamushi),  are  from  the  family  Rickettsiaceae.  All  of  these  diseases  are  commonly  referred  to  as  rickettsial  diseases.