Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Colombia

Hidalgo, Marylin; Orejuela, Leonora; Fuya, Patricia; Carrillo, Pilar; Hernandez, Jorge; Parra, Edgar; Keng, Colette; Small, Melissa; Olano, Juan P.; Bouyer, Donald; Castaneda, Elizabeth; Walker, David; Valbuena, Gustavo

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Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Colombia

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Jul 2007
By Hidalgo, Marylin ; Orejuela, Leonora ; Fuya, Patricia ; ...

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Emerg Infect Dis
Personal Author:

Hidalgo, Marylin ; Orejuela, Leonora ; Fuya, Patricia ; Carrillo, Pilar ; Hernandez, Jorge ; Parra, Edgar ; Keng, Colette ; Small, Melissa ; Olano, Juan P. ; Bouyer, Donald ; Castaneda, Elizabeth ; Walker, David ; Valbuena, Gustavo
Description:

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. A retrospective serosurvey of febrile patients showed that > 21% of the serum samples had antibodies against spotted fever group rickettsiae.
Subjects:

Adult Animals Antibodies, Bacterial Arachnid Vectors Fatal Outcome Female Humans Male Pregnancy Pregnancy Complications, Infectious Rickettsia Rickettsii Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Sentinel Surveillance Ticks
Source:

Emerg Infect Dis. 13(7):1058-1060.
Document Type:

Journal Article
Genre:

Dispatch
Place as Subject:

Colombia
Volume:

13
Issue:

7
Collection(s):

Emerging Infectious Diseases
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urn:sha256:bdc279e8c831813f65d49a39044fe4b22443123025dddeae533373d6e0ca5663
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https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/16357/cdc_16357_DS1.pdf
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