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2 unusual facts about pappataci fever


Pappataci fever

Pappataci fever (also known as Phlebotomus fever and, somewhat confusingly, sandfly fever and three-day fever) is a vector-borne febrile arboviral infection caused by three serotypes of Phlebovirus.

Sandfly fever

Pappataci fever, or Papatasi fever, an acute febrile arboviral infection (most commonly referred to if not else specified)


Transovarial transmission

This is the mechanism by which many Rickettsiae are maintained in their arthropod hosts through generations, which occurs also in aedes mosquito vector of the yellow fever virus and in phlebotomine sandflies that transmit pappataci fever.


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