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AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 1955
Etiology and Transmission The causative agent is Rickettsia rickettsii, a minute, gram-negative, organism which may be found in ticks, the tissues of infected eggs, and the lesions of patients who have contracted the disease. The Rocky Mountain wood tick (Dermacentor andersoni), the American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis), and the Lone Star tick ...
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Etiology and Transmission The causative agent is Rickettsia rickettsii, a minute, gram-negative, organism which may be found in ticks, the tissues of infected eggs, and the lesions of patients who have contracted the disease. The Rocky Mountain wood tick (Dermacentor andersoni), the American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis), and the Lone Star tick ...
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Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, 1979
Information pertinent to the history, etiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of Rocky Mountain spotted fever is provided. Emphasis is placed on the early diagnosis and appropriate specific treatment of this disease.
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Information pertinent to the history, etiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of Rocky Mountain spotted fever is provided. Emphasis is placed on the early diagnosis and appropriate specific treatment of this disease.
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Disease-a-Month, 2012
ocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) is both the most serious and the most ommonly reported rickettsial infection in the USA. The causative organism s Rickettsia rickettsii, which is a member of the spotted fever group. R. ickettsii are small, aerobic, obligate intracellular, Gram-negative coccobailli.
Leyi Lin, Catherine F. Decker
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ocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) is both the most serious and the most ommonly reported rickettsial infection in the USA. The causative organism s Rickettsia rickettsii, which is a member of the spotted fever group. R. ickettsii are small, aerobic, obligate intracellular, Gram-negative coccobailli.
Leyi Lin, Catherine F. Decker
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Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2019
BACKGROUND Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) is a significant public health problem in Sonora, Mexico, resulting in thousands of cases and hundreds of deaths.
G. Álvarez-Hernández +8 more
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BACKGROUND Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) is a significant public health problem in Sonora, Mexico, resulting in thousands of cases and hundreds of deaths.
G. Álvarez-Hernández +8 more
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Meningoencephalitis due to spotted fever rickettsioses, including Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2019BACKGROUND The spotted fever rickettsioses (SFR), including Rocky Mountain spotted fever, are tick-borne infections with frequent neurologic involvement. High morbidity and mortality make early recognition and empiric treatment critical.
M. Bradshaw +4 more
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Archives of Internal Medicine, 1985
Even experienced clinicians in endemic areas occasionally have difficulty diagnosing Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) in the early stages. Numerous pitfalls in diagnosis may test the acumen of even the best physicians. Rickettsia rickettsii , the cause of RMSF, has the potential to kill healthy persons of any age.
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Even experienced clinicians in endemic areas occasionally have difficulty diagnosing Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) in the early stages. Numerous pitfalls in diagnosis may test the acumen of even the best physicians. Rickettsia rickettsii , the cause of RMSF, has the potential to kill healthy persons of any age.
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Journal of the American Medical Association, 1933
The clinical picture varies considerably. On the one extreme are ambulatory patients and abortive attacks and on the other fulminating infections with an early fatal termination. Most infections fall between these two extremes and are of more typical symptomatology, with the case fatality rate varying in different foci.
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The clinical picture varies considerably. On the one extreme are ambulatory patients and abortive attacks and on the other fulminating infections with an early fatal termination. Most infections fall between these two extremes and are of more typical symptomatology, with the case fatality rate varying in different foci.
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Vector Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, 2017
Ehrlichiosis and rickettsiosis are two common bacterial tick-borne diseases in the southeastern United States. Ehrlichiosis is caused by ehrlichiae transmitted by Amblyomma americanum and rickettsiosis is caused by rickettsiae transmitted by Amblyomma ...
R. T. Trout Fryxell +6 more
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Ehrlichiosis and rickettsiosis are two common bacterial tick-borne diseases in the southeastern United States. Ehrlichiosis is caused by ehrlichiae transmitted by Amblyomma americanum and rickettsiosis is caused by rickettsiae transmitted by Amblyomma ...
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Thrombocytopenia in Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 1968ROCKY MOUNTAIN spotted fever (RMSF) is the most important rickettsial disease of children in this country. Cases have been reported in almost all of the states of this nation proving that occurrence is not limited geographically. For this reason, it has been suggested that "tick typhus" is a more appropriate designation for the infection than is RMSF ...
Tom Rubio +4 more
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ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER [PDF]
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1941 Rocky Mountain spotted fever is an acute infectious disease caused by the virus-like organism Dermacentroxenus rickettsii, which is transmitted to human beings by an infected tick. The infection is characterized clinically by an acute onset with chills and fever, severe headache, restlessness, delirium and a characteristic hemorrhagic eruption of the ...
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