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Needlestick-Associated Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Brazil
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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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 +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 +2 more
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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 +12 more
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Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, A Community Intervention [PDF]
, 2005 Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever is the most severe and most frequently reported tick related illness in the United States. It also occurs in Mexico and in Central and South America.
Dickson, Jeff
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Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2014 Rocky Mountain spotted fever is endemic to the São Paulo metropolitan area, Brazil, where the etiologic agent, Rickettsia rickettsii, is transmitted to humans by adult Amblyomma aureolatum ticks.
Danilo G. Saraiva +3 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 +4 more
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Rickettsia rickettsii Co-feeding Transmission among Amblyomma aureolatum Ticks
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2018 Amblyomma aureolatum ticks are vectors of Rickettsia rickettsii, the etiologic agent of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in Brazil. Maintenance of R. rickettsii in nature depends on horizontal transmission along tick generations.
Jonas Moraes-Filho +4 more
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract When I was 12, my family told me a story about their community falling apart and coming together, a time when someone tried putting a nuclear facility in their (our?) hometown. Since we moved when I was too young to remember, the story had little significance until I embarked on a “hometown” ethnographic journey for my dissertation.
Chandler L. Classen
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Tropical Medicine and Infectious DiseaseTicks are vectors of public health concern because the pathogens they transmit can cause detrimental diseases in humans. Lyme disease, tick-borne relapsing fever, human granulocytic anaplasmosis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tick-borne encephalitis ...
Michael W. Curtis, Job E. Lopez
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