Rickettsia rickettsii infection is the only rickettsiosis included in the list of reportable diseases in Brazil, where typhus group rickettsioses, mainly murine typhus, have been underreported. We report a case of typhus group rickettsiosis with unique ecologic particularities in a patient from the Brazilian Amazon, where, to our knowledge, rickettsioses have not been reported.
Keywords: Brazilian Amazon; bacteria; rickettsia; rickettsial infections; rickettsiosis; typhus; typhus group; vector-borne infections; zoonoses.