Disease | Organism | Vectors | Geographic distribution | Severity of symptoms |
African tick bite fever | Rickettsia africae | Amblyomma ticks | Sub-Saharan Africa Caribbean | Mild |
Flea rickettsiosis | R. felis | Cat fleas Mosquitos | Europe North America South America Africa Asia | Mild |
Flinders Island spotted fever | R. honei | Ticks of several genera | Australia Southeast Asia Thailand | Mild to moderate |
Japanese spotted fever | R. japonica | Dermacentor Haemaphysalis Ixodes ticks | Southwest Japan Thailand Korea | Mild to severe |
Lymphangitis-associated rickettsiosis | R. sibirica mongolotimonae | Hyalomma ticks | China Sub-Saharan Africa France | Mild to moderate |
Mediterranean spotted fever | R. conorii | R. sanguineous | North Africa | Mild to severe |
Haemaphysalis ticks | Kenya Israel Southern and Eastern Europe Pakistan | |||
Queensland tick typhus | R. australis | Ixodes ticks | Eastern Australia | Mild to moderate |
Rickettsialpox | R. akari | Allodermanyssus sanguineous (mouse mites) | North America Korea Balkans | Mild |
Rocky mountain spotted fever | R. rickettsii | Dermacentor andersoni | United States | Human – severe to mild |
Dermacentor variabilis | Southern Canada | |||
Rhipicephalus sanguineous ticks Ambylomma ticks | Mexico Central America Brazil | |||
R. parkeri infection | R. parkeri | Amblyomma ticks | United States Brazil Uruguay Central America | – |
Siberian tick typhus | R. sibirica, R. sibirica mongolotimonae | Dermacentor ticks | China Russia Pakistan Central Asia Southern and Eastern Europe | Mild to moderate |
Tick-borne lymphadenopathy | R. slovaca | Dermacentor ticks | Europe | Mild |
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