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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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Fatal Spotted Fever Rickettsiosis, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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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Spotted fever rickettsioses causing myocarditis and ARDS: a case from Sri Lanka
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2018 Background Spotted fever group of rickettsial infections are emerging in Sri Lanka. We describe a patient with rapidly progressing ARDS and myocarditis secondary to spotted fever caused by Rickettsia conorii.
H. M. L. Y. Herath +4 more
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Rickettsioses as Major Etiologies of Unrecognized Acute Febrile Illness, Sabah, East Malaysia
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2020 Orientia tsutsugamushi, spotted fever group rickettsioses, and typhus group rickettsioses (TGR) are reemerging causes of acute febrile illness (AFI) in Southeast Asia. To further delineate extent, we enrolled patients >4 weeks of age with nonmalarial AFI
Matthew J. Grigg +10 more
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Fatal Brazilian spotless fever caused by Rickettsia rickettsii in a dark-skinned patient
Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2011 Brazilian spotted fever (BSF) is the most important and frequent rickettsial disease in Brazil. A fatal case of BSF is reported in a 32-year-old black man, who died of irreversible shock after five days of fever, severe headache and abdominal pain with ...
Alexsandra Rodrigues de Mendonça Favacho +4 more
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Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2005 Brazilian spotted fever (BSF) cases have been increasing in the state of São Paulo but no genomic information about local rickettsia isolated from humans has been well documented.
Elvira Maria Mendes Nascimento +5 more
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Fatal Spotted Fever Rickettsiosis, Kenya
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2004 We report a fatal case of rickettsiosis in a woman from the United States living in Kenya, who had a history of tick exposure. Immunohistochemical staining of skin, kidney, and liver demonstrated spotted fever group rickettsiae.
Jeremiah S. Rutherford +8 more
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Mechanisms of immunity to Rickettsia and implications for vaccine development
Revista Colombiana de Ciencias Pecuarias, 2017 Immunity to spotted fever group Rickettsiae following primary infection prevents reinfection as judged by the absence of documented second infections after recovery.
David H. Walker
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Additional Notes on the Biology of the Rocky Mountain Spotted-Fever Tick1 [PDF]
, 1913 F. C. Bishopp, W. V. King
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Seroprevalence of scrub typhus, murine typhus and spotted fever groups in North Korean refugees
International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2021 Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the seroprevalence of antibodies against scrub typhus, murine typhus and spotted fever groups among North Korean refugees within 1 year of their arrival in South Korea.
Jihye Um +6 more
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