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A Vaccine for Canine Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever: An Unmet One Health Need. [PDF]

Vaccines (Basel), 2022
Outbreaks of life-threatening Rocky Mountain spotted fever in humans and dogs associated with a canine-tick maintenance cycle constitute an important One Health opportunity.
Walker DH, Blanton LS, Laroche M, Fang R, Narra HP.   +4 more
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Modeling of Control Efforts against Rhipicephalus sanguineus, the Vector of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in Sonora Mexico. [PDF]

Insects, 2022
Simple Summary Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) is among the most fatal of all bacterial diseases in the Americas. Humans become ill through the bite of ticks infected with the bacterium Rickettsia rickettsii.
Alvarez-Hernandez G, Trejo AV, Ratti V, Teglas M, Wallace DI.   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in a Large Metropolitan Center, Mexico-United States Border, 2009-2019. [PDF]

Emerg Infect Dis, 2021
Longevity, high prevalence, and multifocal distribution of this disease pose unprecedented public health challenges.
Zazueta OE, Armstrong PA, Márquez-Elguea A, Hernández Milán NS, Peterson AE, Ovalle-Marroquín DF, Fierro M, Arroyo-Machado R, Rodriguez-Lomeli M, Trejo-Dozal G, Paddock CD.   +10 more
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Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in Mexico: A Call to Action. [PDF]

Am J Trop Med Hyg
. Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) is an ongoing public health crisis in Mexico, particularly in states bordering the United States. The national highest incidence and mortality of RMSF occur in this region, resulting in a case-fatality rate that ...
Álvarez-Hernández G, López-Ridaura R, Cortés-Alcalá R, García Rodríguez G, Calleja-López JRT, Rivera-Rosas CN, Alomía-Zegarra JL, Brophy M, Brito-Lorán CB, Del Carmen Candia-Plata M, Ceballos-Liceaga SE, Correa-Morales F, Dzul-Rosado KR, Foley J, Galván-Moroyoqui JM, Ganta R, Gutiérrez-Cedillo V, Hernández-Milán NS, López-Pérez AM, López-Soto LF, Martínez-Soto JM, Mata-Pineda AL, Paddock CD, Ruiz-González ILJ, Salinas-Aguirre JE, Salzer JS, Sánchez-Montes S, Soto-Guzmán A, Tamez-Rivera Ó, Wagner DM, Walker DH.   +30 more
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Epidemiology and Clinical Features of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever from Enhanced Surveillance, Sonora, Mexico: 2015-2018. [PDF]

Am J Trop Med Hyg, 2021
Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF), caused by Rickettsia rickettsii, is a severe and potentially fatal tick-borne disease. In 2015, Mexico issued a declaration of epidemiologic emergency in response to ongoing outbreaks of RMSF in northern Mexico ...
Álvarez-López DI, Ochoa-Mora E, Nichols Heitman K, Binder AM, Álvarez-Hernández G, Armstrong PA.   +5 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, María Gabriela Aramburú, Xavier Sáez-Llorens, Herbert A. Thompson, Gregory A. Dasch, Christopher D. Paddock, Sherif Zaki, Marina E. Eremeeva   +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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Newly Recognized Spotted Fever Group Rickettsia as Cause of Severe Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever–Like Illness, Northern California, USA

Emerging Infectious Diseases
The incidence of spotted fever group (SFG) rickettsioses in the United States has tripled since 2010. Rocky Mountain spotted fever, the most severe SFG rickettsiosis, is caused by Rickettsia rickettsii.
Will S. Probert, Monica P. Haw, Aran C. Nichol, Carol A. Glaser, Sarah Y. Park, Laura E. Campbell, Kavita K. Trivedi, Hannah Romo, Megan E.M. Saunders, Anne M. Kjemtrup, Kerry A. Padgett, Jill K. Hacker   +11 more
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Rocky Mountain spotted fever contracted along a Canadian road trip: A case report [PDF]

SAGE Open Medical Case Reports
Rocky 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
doaj   +2 more sources