A review of the evidence in retrospect for a rickettsial etiology in Bullis fever.

摘要: The authors have presented evidence through work done 25-30 years ago for the rickettsial etiology of Bullis fever, a forgotten epidemic which occurred with over 1,000 cases among World War II troops in training at Camp Bullis, Texas. Rickettsiae were recovered from blood and lymph nodes patients ticks, Amblyomma americanum, collected area. All gave history tick-bites. human tick strains rickettsiae, carried chick embryo culture animal passage, found to produce characteristic syndrome fever volunteers inoculated either strain, indicating identity specificity infection. Wildlife area was support stages life cycle A. americanum. Deer implicated as supporting most abundant adult population, stage attacks man. Serologic studies eliminated othe diseases, Colorado dengue many other diseases. name Rickettsia texiana is suggested hitherto un-named member rickettsia group organisms.