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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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.
Luis Marcos, Eric Spitzer
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Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Panama
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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A fatal case series of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in Sonora, México [PDF]
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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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, 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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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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Outbreak of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in Córdoba, Colombia [PDF]
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 [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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A structured framework for the development of knowledge, attitudes, and practices surveys addressing brown dog tick-associated Rocky Mountain spotted fever [PDF]
Public Health in PracticeObjectives: Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) is a severe tick-borne disease with high fatality rates in endemic regions, particularly where brown dog ticks proliferate.
K.P. Romo-Dueñas +5 more
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