DISEASE: Sennetsu neorickettsiosis

Entry

H01140                      Disease

Name

Sennetsu neorickettsiosis;
Sennetsu ehrlichiosis

Description

Neorickettsia sennetsu, an obligate intracellular bacteria closely related to Ehrlichia and Anaplasma, causes an infectious mononucleosis-like disease. It is very likely linked to consumption of raw fish in tropical Asia. Patients with sennetsu neorickettsiosis experience acute febrile disease, malaise, myalgias, pharyngitis, anorexia, generalized lymphadenopathy, and peripheral blood mononucleosis.

Category

Infectious disease

Brite

Infectious diseases [BR:br08401]
Bacterial infections
  Infections caused by alpha proteobacteria
   H01140  Sennetsu neorickettsiosis
Human diseases in ICD-11 classification [BR:br08403]
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
  Other bacterial diseases
   Rickettsioses
    1C3Y  Other specified rickettsioses
     H01140  Sennetsu neorickettsiosis

Pathogen

Neorickettsia sennetsu [GN:nse]

Other DBs

ICD-11:

1C3Y

ICD-10:

A79.8

MeSH:

C537582

Reference

PMID:19635866

Authors

Walker DH

Title

Sennetsu neorickettsiosis: a potentially prevalent, treatable, acutely incapacitating tropical infectious disease.

Journal

Am J Trop Med Hyg 81:187-8 (2009)
DOI:10.4269/ajtmh.2009.81.187

Reference

PMID:19635868

Authors

Newton PN, Rolain JM, Rasachak B, Mayxay M, Vathanatham K, Seng P, Phetsouvanh R, Thammavong T, Zahidi J, Suputtamongkol Y, Syhavong B, Raoult D

Title

Sennetsu neorickettsiosis: a probable fish-borne cause of fever rediscovered in Laos.

Journal

Am J Trop Med Hyg 81:190-4 (2009)
DOI:10.4269/ajtmh.2009.81.190

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