Primarily a disease of rodents and kill her and is transmitted to humans.
Pathogen: Rakedzia Musera or typhoid Rickettsia Mooseri (Rickettsca typhi)
Sources of infection: mice, fleas or human fleas infected.
Reservoirs of infection: mice, mouse, especially the black climberRattus ratus (Black rat)
The brown Norway rat Rattus norvigicus (Brown rat) and the house mouse.
Ways of transmission:
1 - absorbed by Flea of the mouse infected during fever, withRikedzia and after 3-10 days from multiplying in the stomachsecretes Rikedzia with the feces of the flea, and continues toproduce throughout his life, and transmitted the infection from ratto another and from mice to humans. And Rikedzia in flea foundinside the stomach and not in the salivary glands (ie, flea bites is not contagious) and excreted with the feces of the flea and theflea feces enter the infectious to the human body through thewounds of flea bites or through abrasions that occur as a result ofitching.
2 - inhalation of the secretions dry flea or mouse with the diseaseor contamination of mucous membrane lining of the eye / nose / mouth Palmspb patients.
3 - eating foods contaminated with infected secretions, especiallythe mouse urine.
4 - infection from one person to another are rare, by the humanflea Pulex irritans Biolx Artians louse or a human act as a sourceof infection for humans.
- Endemic disease in places where there are large quantities of mice so they are spread in the ports and places for the storage offood shops selling food.
Disease in humans:
- The incubation period of 60-20 days.
1 - fever lasts for 14 days / headaches / pains in the body.
2 - After 5 days of fever, a rash similar to measles cases andhave the color magenta, dark rose-red macules diameter of 2-3 mm and starts below the chest / top coffee / and then extends to the parties but does not appear on the face or the convenience ofhands or feet.
3 - minor complications in the form of the central nervous system.
Methods of control and prevention of disease:
1 - resistant rats: development of pesticides in the passages in which the rats are going to fight fleas and the fleas but which losetheir breadwinner will look for another host may be a human.
2 - Treating people with the use of antibiotics.
3 - Use of the vaccine prepared from the Dead Rikedzia for people at risk in areas where the disease is endemic.
التسميات
Fever