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Needlestick-Associated Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Brazil [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2020 We report a fatal case of Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) in a man in Brazil without recent history of tick bites or environmental exposure. He received an accidental needlestick while working as a nurse. The nurse and his patient died.
Stefan Vilges de Oliveira +5 more
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Isolation of Rickettsia rickettsii in Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Outbreak, Panama [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2021 We report new cases of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in patients from Kinkantu, Ngäbe-Bugle indigenous comarca, Panama. We isolated Rickettsia rickettsii in cell culture after intraperitoneal inoculation of guinea pigs with tissues from a deceased patient.
Yamitzel Zaldívar +7 more
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Rocky Mountain spotted fever [PDF]
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 2002 Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF), a potentially fatal, tick-borne disease caused by the gram-negative intracellular bacterium Rickettsia rickettsii, is endemic in parts of North and South America, especially the southeastern and southcentral United States.
Ronald D. Warner, Wallace W. Marsh
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Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Panama [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2007 We describe a fatal pediatric case of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in Panama, the first, to our knowledge, since the 1950s. Diagnosis was established by immunohistochemistry, PCR, and isolation of Rickettsia rickettsii from postmortem tissues.
Dora Estripeaut +7 more
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Kawasaki disease following Rocky Mountain spotted fever: a case report [PDF]
Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2009 Introduction Kawasaki disease is an idiopathic acute systemic vasculitis of childhood. Although it simulates the clinical features of many infectious diseases, an infectious etiology has not been established.
Bal Aswine K, Kairys Steven W
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Genetic sequencing of a 1944 Rocky Mountain spotted fever vaccine [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) is a rapidly progressive and often fatal tick-borne disease caused by Rickettsia rickettsii. Its discovery and characterization by Howard Ricketts has been hailed as a remarkable historical example of detection and ...
Yongli Xiao +5 more
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Rocky Mountain spotted fever contracted along a Canadian road trip: A case report [PDF]
SAGE Open Medical Case ReportsRocky Mountain spotted fever, a potentially fatal tick-borne disease thought to be confined to specific climates and geographic locations, is expanding its reach due to climate change.
Aliyah King, Alison Spurr, Reetesh Bose
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Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in Dogs, Brazil [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2009 Clinical illness caused by Rickettsia rickettsii in dogs has been reported solely in the United States. We report 2 natural clinical cases of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in dogs in Brazil. Each case was confirmed by seroconversion and molecular analysis
Marcelo B. Labruna +4 more
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False-Positive Serology for Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in Long Island, New York, during 2011–2021 [PDF]
Pathogens, 2023 Cases of rocky mountain spotted fever (RMSF) are increasingly reported every year in Long Island, New York. In clinical practice, an uncommonly high number of referrals with a positive RMSF IgG test result have been seen in our tick-borne disease clinic.
Monirul I. Sajib +3 more
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Secondary hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis associated with Rocky Mountain spotted fever in a toddler: A case report [PDF]
eJHaem, 2022 A three‐year‐old boy presented with fever, maculopapular rash involving palms and soles, and hyponatremia two weeks following a tick bite. Empiric doxycycline that he was on was discontinued following negative initial rickettsial serology based on the ...
Smitha Hosahalli Vasanna +3 more
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