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Severe and Fatal Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever After Exposure in Tecate, Mexico - California, July 2023-January 2024. [PDF]

MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep
Kjemtrup AM, Hacker JK, Monroe M, Williams V, Lines C, Lopez K, Paddock CD, Carpenter A, Salzer JS, Villalba JA, Bhatnagar J, Shah S, Iniguez-Stevens E, Efthemeou TC, Hernandez V, Vugia DJ, Kramer VL.   +16 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

P-1434. Geostatistical Analysis of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Outbreak in Mexican Pediatric Patients: A Retrospective Observational Study [PDF]

Open Forum Infect Dis
Lindsay A Concha-Mora, José Eduardo Mares-Gil, Oscar Octavio Loya-Guerrero, Cesar Antonio Ramos-Ortiz, Pablo D Treviño-Valdez, Oscar Tamez‐Rivera   +5 more
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Canine Spotted Fever Group Rickettsial Seroprevalence as an Indicator for Human Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Case Rates in Arizona, USA. [PDF]

Zoonoses Public Health
ABSTRACT Introduction Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF), a rapidly progressing febrile disease caused by the bacterium Rickettsia rickettsii, is the deadliest tick‐borne disease in the world. Human infection initially results in non‐specific symptoms and, if untreated, can result in death in up to 35% of cases.
Oliva A, Kreisler R, Romkema A, Madsen S, Furman H, Maag C, Schaefer C, Hernandez JA, Lee JK, Quinlan M, VandenBrooks J.   +10 more
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Rocky Mountain spotted fever: brain imaging findings [PDF]

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2018
Bruna Melo Coelho Loureiro, Fabiano Reis, Grazielly de Fátima Pereira, Cristina Alba Lalli   +3 more
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EPIDEMIOLOGY OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER IN BRAZIL, 2010-2020

Arquivos de Ciências da Saúde da UNIPAR, 2023
Rocky Mountain spotted fever is a tick-borne rickettsiosis. The main clinical signs and symptoms are fever, severe headache, rashes and myalgia. It is considered difficult to diagnose and underreported.
Fernanda Cristina Poscai Ribeiro, Kleber Fernando Pereira, Dayane Kelly Sabec-Pereira, Alexandre Daronco, Alcântara Ramos de Assis César   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever [PDF]

, 2012
This issue of eMedRef provides information to clinicians on the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and therapeutics of Rocky Mountain Spotted ...
Haynes, James W., Wasmund, Joshua B.
core   +1 more source

Rickettsia parkeri in Amblyomma maculatum Ticks, North Carolina, USA, 2009–2010

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2011
We detected Rickettsia parkeri in 20%−33% of Amblyomma maculatum ticks sampled in North Carolina. Results highlight the high frequencies of R. parkeri–infected ticks in the state with the highest annual incidence of Rocky Mountain spotted fever ...
Andrea S. Varela-Stokes, Christopher D. Paddock, Barry Engber, Marcee Toliver   +3 more
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Rickettsia rickettsii infection as an unusual cause of pediatric retinitis: A case report

American Journal of Ophthalmology Case Reports, 2022
Purpose: To report a case of infectious pediatric retinitis attributed to Rocky Mountain spotted fever which is rarely reported in the United States.
Spencer M. Moore, Mark A. McAllister, Tanu O. Thomas   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dual Infection with Ehrlichia chaffeensis and a Spotted Fever Group Rickettsia: A Case Report

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 1998
Well-documented cases of simultaneous human infection with more than one tick-borne pathogen are rare. To our knowledge only two dual infections have been reported: simultaneous human infection with the agent of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis and ...
Daniel J. Sexton, G. Ralph Corey, Christopher Carpenter, Li Quo Kong, Tejel Gandhi, Edward B. Breitschwerdt, Barbara C. Hegarty, Sheng-Ming Chen, Hui-Min Feng, Li Zhao, Juan Olano, David H. Walker, Stephen J. Dumler   +12 more
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Molecular pathogenesis of Rocky Mountain spotted fever: a brief review

IMC Journal of Medical Science, 2021
Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) is a bacterial infection caused by Rickettsia, a diverse group of small Gram-negative rod-shaped α-proteobacteria, and obligates intracellular pathogens, which are free-living in hosts' cell cytoplasm and are ...
Peter Uteh Upla, Bashiru Sani, Naja’atu Shehu Hadi, Fatima Yusuf Al-Mustapha, Kabiru Shuaibu   +4 more
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