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Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) is a life-threatening disease caused by Rickettsia rickettsii, an obligately intracellular bacterium that is spread to human beings by ticks. More than a century after its first clinical description, this disease is still among the most virulent human infections identified, being potentially fatal even in previously healthy young people. The diagnosis of RMSF...
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R ocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF), a classic metazoonosis that involves both vertebrate and non-vertebrate reservoir hosts, is a seasonal disease of dogs and humans in the Americas. The clinical illness was first described among Native Americans, soldiers, and settlers in the Bitterroot River and Snake River valleys of Montana and Idaho during the late 1890s, but remained unrecognized in dog...
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We describe a fatal pediatric case of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in Panama, the first, to our knowledge, since the 1950s. Diagnosis was established by immunohistochemistry, PCR, and isolation of Rickettsia rickettsii from postmortem tissues. Molecular typing demonstrated strong relatedness of the isolate to strains of R. rickettsii from Central and South America.
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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.
متن کاملImmunity Studies of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
Freshly prepared mixtures of spotted fever virus and immune rabbit serum in neutral or superneutral proportions confer complete immunity on guinea pigs. The mixtures undergo a considerable loss in immunizing power when heated to 60 degrees C. for 20 minutes, but are still capable, if used in sufficient quantity, of conferring a degree of immunity on the vaccinated animal such that a subsequent ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0926-9959,1468-3083
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-3083.2006.01489.x