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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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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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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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Prognostic Factors in Patients with Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
International Journal of Medical Students, 2020 Background: Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (RMSF) is a disease with a high mortality rate, caused by Rickettsia rickettsii, a bacteria transmitted to humans by infected ticks. In 2008 there was a Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (RMSF) outbreak in the city of
Hiram J. Jaramillo-Ramírez +8 more
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Isolation of Rickettsia rickettsii in Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Outbreak, Panama
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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A fatal case series of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in Sonora, México
Biomédica: revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2018 Introduction: Rocky Mountain spotted fever is a highly lethal infectious disease, particularly if specific treatment with doxycycline is given belatedly.
Jesús Delgado-De la Mora +5 more
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Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Colombia
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2007 We investigated 2 fatal cases of Rocky Mountain spotted fever that occurred in 2003 and 2004 near the same locality in Colombia where the disease was first reported in the 1930s.
Marylin Hidalgo +12 more
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Outbreak of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in Córdoba, Colombia
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2011 Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) is a tick-borne disease caused by the obligate intracellular bacterium Rickettsia rickettsii. Although RMSF was first reported in Colombia in 1937, it remains a neglected disease.
Marylin Hidalgo +7 more
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Genetic sequencing of a 1944 Rocky Mountain spotted fever vaccine
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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