Abstract
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 aaainst spotted fever group rickettsiae.
Publication types
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Case Reports
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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
MeSH terms
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Adult
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Animals
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Antibodies, Bacterial / blood*
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Arachnid Vectors / microbiology*
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Colombia / epidemiology
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Fatal Outcome
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Pregnancy
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Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / epidemiology*
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Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / mortality
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Rickettsia rickettsii / immunology*
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Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever / epidemiology*
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Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever / mortality
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Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever / transmission
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Sentinel Surveillance
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Ticks / microbiology*