They can transmit a number of diseases which can be potentially fatal to man, such as Weil's disease and murine typhus.

Murine typhus occurs in tropical and subtropical climates around the world where rats and their fleas live.

This is a rare disease in North America, but a few cases of Murine Typhus are reported each year.

murine typhus an infectious disease, clinically similar to epidemic typhus but milder, due to Rickettsia typhi, transmitted from rat to human by the rat flea and rat louse.

Rat and rodent fleas are vectors of deadly diseases such as murine typhus and plague.

In most areas of the world, rats are the main animal host for fleas infected with murine typhus.

Rats are known to be a source of numerous diseases affecting man, such as the Plague and Murine Typhus.

People get sick with murine typhus when infected flea feces are rubbed into cuts or scrapes in the skin.

People will get sick with murine typhus when infected flea feces are rubbed into cuts or scrapes in the skin.

In 2018, 20 Pasadena residents have been confirmed to have typhus fever, well above the expected one to five cases per year.

In Texas, murine typhus cases occur in spring and summer, whereas, in California, cases have been documented in summer and fall.

Alternatively known as murine typhus, this type is caused by Rickettsia-typhi and is carried by the rat flea or cat flea.

Alternatively known as murine typhus, this type is caused by Rickettsia typhi and is carried by the rat flea or cat flea.

Known as murine typhus, this type is caused by Rickettsia typhi and carried by fleas from rats or fleas from cats.

Development of quantitative real-time PCR assays to detect Rickettsia typhi and Rickettsia felis, the causative agents of murine typhus and flea-borne spotted fever.