University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Diseases that require arthropod vectors:
- Anaplasmosis
- Ehrlichiosis
- Epidemic Typhus
- Murine (Endemic) Typhus
- Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
- Lyme Disease
- Relapsing Fever
- Trench Fever

Zoonotic Febrile Diseases

Anaplasmosis is caused by the pathogen *Anaplasma phagocytophilum*.

Anaplasmosis

Ehrlichiosis is caused by caused by the BSL-2, obligate intracellular pathogen *Ehrlichia chaffeensis*.

Ehrlichiosis

Epidemic Typhus is caused by the pathogen *Rickettsia prowazekii* and is transmitted by body lice, *Pediculus humanus*.

Epidemic Typhus

Murine (Endemic) Typhus is caused by  the pathogen *Rickettsia typhi*

Murine (Endemic) Typhus

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever is caused by the pathogen *Rickettsia rickettsii* 

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

Lyme Disease is caused by the spirochete *Borrelia burgdorferi*

Lyme Disease

Relapsing fever can be caused by two pathogens: *B. recurrentis*, causing louseborne relapsing fever, and *B. hermsii*, causing tickborne relapsing fever.

Relapsing Fever

Trench Fever is caused by the pathogen *Bartonella quintana*.

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