Spotted fever

Spotted fever
Classification and external resources
Specialty	Infectious disease
ICD-10	A77
ICD-9-CM	082.0

A spotted fever is a type of tick-borne disease which presents on the skin.^[1] They are all caused by bacteria of the genus Rickettsia. Typhus is a group of similar diseases also caused by Rickettsia bacteria, but spotted fevers and typhus are different clinical entities.

Types of spotted fevers include:

References

↑ "spotted fever" at Dorland's Medical Dictionary

Infectious diseases
Bacterial disease: Proteobacterial G−
- primarily A00–A79, 001–041, 080–109

Rickettsiales

Rickettsiaceae/
(Rickettsioses)

Typhus

Spotted
fever

Tick-borne	Rickettsia rickettsii Rocky Mountain spotted fever Rickettsia conorii Boutonneuse fever Rickettsia japonica Japanese spotted fever Rickettsia sibirica North Asian tick typhus Rickettsia australis Queensland tick typhus Rickettsia honei Flinders Island spotted fever Rickettsia africae African tick bite fever Rickettsia parkeri American tick bite fever Rickettsia aeschlimannii Rickettsia aeschlimannii infection

Mite-borne	Rickettsia akari Rickettsialpox Orientia tsutsugamushi Scrub typhus

Flea-borne	Rickettsia felis Flea-borne spotted fever

Anaplasmataceae

Rhizobiales

Brucellaceae	Brucella abortus Brucellosis

Bartonellaceae	Bartonellosis: Bartonella henselae Cat-scratch disease Bartonella quintana Trench fever either henselae or quintana Bacillary angiomatosis Bartonella bacilliformis Carrion's disease, Verruga peruana

Neisseriales

M+	Neisseria meningitidis/meningococcus Meningococcal disease, Waterhouse–Friderichsen syndrome, Meningococcal septicaemia

M-	Neisseria gonorrhoeae/gonococcus Gonorrhea

ungrouped:	Eikenella corrodens/Kingella kingae HACEK Chromobacterium violaceum Chromobacteriosis infection

Burkholderiales

Enterobacteriales
(OX-)

Lac+

Enterobacter aerogenes/Enterobacter cloacae

Slow/weak

Lac-

H2S+	Salmonella enterica Typhoid fever, Paratyphoid fever, Salmonellosis

H2S-	Shigella dysenteriae/sonnei/flexneri/boydii Shigellosis, Bacillary dysentery Proteus mirabilis/Proteus vulgaris Yersinia pestis Plague/Bubonic plague Yersinia enterocolitica Yersiniosis Yersinia pseudotuberculosis Far East scarlet-like fever

Pasteurellales

Haemophilus:	H. influenzae Haemophilus meningitis Brazilian purpuric fever H. ducreyi Chancroid H. parainfluenzae HACEK

Pasteurella multocida	Pasteurellosis Actinobacillus Actinobacillosis

Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans	HACEK

Legionellales

Thiotrichales

Francisella tularensis
- Tularemia

Vibrionaceae

Pseudomonadales

Xanthomonadaceae

Stenotrophomonas maltophilia

Cardiobacteriaceae

Cardiobacterium hominis
- HACEK

Aeromonadales

Aeromonas hydrophila/Aeromonas veronii
- Aeromonas infection

Campylobacterales	Campylobacter jejuni Campylobacteriosis, Guillain–Barré syndrome Helicobacter pylori Peptic ulcer, MALT lymphoma, Gastric cancer Helicobacter cinaedi Helicobacter cellulitis

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