Rickettsial Infections Causing Acute Febrile Illness in Urban Slums, Brazil

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Fournier, John B. ; Blanton, Lucas S. ; Nery, Nivison ; Wunder, Elsio A. ; Costa, Federico ; Reis, Mitermayer G. ; Ribeiro, Guilherme S. ; Walker, David H. ; Ko, Albert I.
• Description:
  We conducted enhanced acute febrile illness surveillance in an urban slum community in Salvador, Brazil. We found that rickettsial infection accounted for 3.5% of urgent care visits for acute fever. Our results suggest that rickettsiae might be an underrecognized, treatable cause of acute febrile illness in impoverished urban populations in Brazil.
• Subjects:
  Antibodies, Bacterial Fever Humans Poverty Areas Rickettsia Infections
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 2022; 28(10):2132-2134
• Pubmed ID:
  36148970
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC9514363
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Genre:
  Letter
• Place as Subject:
  Brazil
• Volume:
  28
• Issue:
  10
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:af2c6953da51941d782af1e4c0f0301d7ef6b9ac0f0370328ef8420f22235ad2
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/122485/cdc_122485_DS1.pdf
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