Diagnostic Procedures for Virus and Rickettsial Diseases

Weil-Felix test: A diagnostic tool for rickettsial diseases

Rickettsial diseases are generally classified under the causes of pyrexia of unknown origin (PUO) and high prevalence of this disease is found in developing countries like India. Diagnosis in such cases is difficult because early sign and symptoms are non-specific and varied. Mortality may be as high as 3040% if untreated. Weil Felix in one of the cheapest screening method available for laborat...

Rickettsia and Rickettsial Diseases

Rickettsia prowazekii and R. rickettsii are HHS and USDA select agents (http://biosafety.utk.edu/pdfs/salist.pdf), and R. prowazekii is a category B bioterrorism agent as determined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/agentlist-category.asp). The criteria for CDC category B bioterrorism agents are that the organisms are moderately easy to dissemi...

diagnostic and developmental potentials of dynamic assessment for writing skill

این پایان نامه بدنبال بررسی کاربرد ارزیابی مستمر در یک محیط یادگیری زبان دوم از طریق طرح چهار سوال تحقیق زیر بود: (1) درک توانایی های فراگیران زمانیکه که از طریق برآورد عملکرد مستقل آنها امکان پذیر نباشد اما در طول جلسات ارزیابی مستمر مشخص شوند; (2) امکان تقویت توانایی های فراگیران از طریق ارزیابی مستمر; (3) سودمندی ارزیابی مستمر در هدایت آموزش فردی به سمتی که به منطقه ی تقریبی رشد افراد حساس ا...

Treatment in the Rickettsial Diseases

Antimicrobial therapy of rickettsial diseases.

Among the rickettsioses, Q fever has specific pathological and clinical features which do not allow it to be reviewed in comparison with other rickettsioses. Arthropod-borne rickettsioses comprise three distinct disease groups: spotted fever rickettsioses, typhus, and scrub typhus. Among the spotted fever rickettsioses, Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF), Mediterranean spotted fever (MSF), and...