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Human Spotted Fever Rickettsial Infections
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2005 Serum specimens from patients at 4 sites in Peru were tested for evidence of spotted fever group rickettsial infection. Results showed that 30 (18%) of 170 patients had spotted fever group rickettsial infections, which likely caused their illnesses ...
George B. Schoeler +4 more
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Mediterranean spotted fever as a cause of septic shock
IDCases, 2019 Mediterranean spotted fever is a generally benign disease but with the potential of serious manifestations.We report a case of Mediterranean spotted fever in a 56-year–old woman, with pet dog exposure, who presented with a septic shock pattern.
M. Abdeljelil +8 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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Japanese Spotted Fever, South Korea
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2006 We describe the first case of Japanese spotted fever and the first isolate of spotted fever group rickettsia from a patient in South Korea. The isolated rickettsia from the patient was identified as Rickettsia japonica by analysis of the nucleotide ...
Moon-Hyun Chung +8 more
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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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Detection of Spotted Fever Group Rickettsia DNA by Deep Sequencing
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2017 After conventional molecular and serologic testing failed to diagnose the cause of illness, deep sequencing identified spotted fever group Rickettsia DNA in a patient’s blood sample. Sequences belonged to R.
Rikki M.A. Graham +3 more
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Fatal Spotted Fever Rickettsiosis, Minas Gerais, Brazil [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2003 The emergence and reemergence of a serious infectious disease are often associated with a high case-fatality rate because of misdiagnosis and inappropriate or delayed treatment.
Márcio Antonio Moreira Galvão +7 more
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Haemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis as a Complication of Israeli Spotted Fever [PDF]
European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 2022 Rickettsia spp. human infection is endemic in Portugal in the form of Mediterranean spotted fever caused by R. conorii subsp. conorii and Israeli spotted fever (ISF) caused by R. conorii subsp. israelensis.
Maria Margarida Andrade +6 more
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Kawasaki disease following Rocky Mountain spotted fever: a case report
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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