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Rocky Mountain spotted fever in Panama: a cluster description.
Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2011 Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) is a tick-borne infection caused by Rickettsia rickettsii. We report a cluster of fatal cases of RMSF in 2007 in Panama, involving a pregnant woman and two children from the same family.
Maribel Tribaldos +11 more
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Microbiology Spectrum, 2022 Tick-borne spotted fevers caused by Rickettsia occur worldwide. The symptoms of this bacterial infection are similar to those of viral infection, and thus, diagnostic accuracy has special clinical importance.
Nina S. Smirnova +5 more
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Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología, 2006 Risk as category of analysis can not be reduced as a numeric probability, as is usually understood in public health. risk is a topic in modern societies that has been constructed as a pivotal issue to allow its technification and management while has ...
Roberto Suárez. +2 more
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Revista Médica del Hospital General de México, 2016 Dermatologic emergencies represent about 8–20% of the diseases seen in the Emergency Department of hospitals. It is often a challenge for primary care physicians to differentiate mundane skin ailments from more serious, life threatening conditions that ...
M.P. Simón Díaz +2 more
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Rickettsia parkeri Rickettsiosis, Argentina
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2011 Rickettsia parkeri, a recently identified cause of spotted fever rickettsiosis in the United States, has been found in Amblyomma triste ticks in several countries of South America, including Argentina, where it is believed to cause disease in humans.
Yamila Romer +6 more
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Rocky Mountain spotted fever in Mexican children: Clinical and mortality factors.
Salud Pública de México, 2016 Objective. Characterize clinical manifestations and predictors of mortality in children hospitalized for spotted fever. Materials and methods. Cross-sectional study in 210 subjects with a diagnosis of Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) in a pediatric ...
Gerardo Álvarez-Hernández +5 more
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Emerging Infectious DiseasesWe describe 5 children who had Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) and manifested clinical symptoms similar to multisystem inflammatory syndrome in Sonora, Mexico, where RMSF is hyperendemic.
Gerardo Álvarez-Hernández +6 more
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Adherence to and Invasion of Host Cells by Spotted Fever Group Rickettsia Species
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2010 The pathogenic lifecycle of obligate intracellular bacteria presents a superb opportunity to develop understanding of the interaction between the bacteria and host under the pretext that disruption of these processes will likely lead to death of the ...
Yvonne Gar-Yun Chan +2 more
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Public Health Reports (1896-1970), 1912 Reprint from the Public health reports, vol. XXVII, no. 36, Sept. 6, 1912. This paper originally appeared in the Military surgeon, vol. XXIX, no. 6, Dec. 1911, p. 631-657, under title, "The problem of Rocky Mountain spotted fever." As republished here the text and bibliography have been amended so as to cover the subject to the present time. cf. p. 3. ;
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Questions on Mediterranean Spotted Fever a Century after Its Discovery
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2008 Mediterranean spotted fever (MSF) was first described in 1910. Twenty years later, it was recognized as a rickettsial disease transmitted by the brown dog tick.
Clarisse Rovery +2 more
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