Symposium 9: Rocky Mountain Futures: Preserving, Utilizing, and Sustaining Rocky Mountain Ecosystems
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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...
متن کاملRocky Mountain spotted fever.
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...
متن کاملSouthwestern and Rocky Mountain Division.
ALASKA DIVISION Gunter E. Weller Irma Duncan President Executive Secretary PHYSICS (B) CHEMISTRI Edwin M. McMillan Thomas E. RoIf M. Sinclair Leo Schube SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC SCIENCES (K) Robert K. Marton Harvey Sapolsky EDUCATION (Q) DENTISTR Gordon Swanson Martin C Phillip R. Fordyce Sholom F PACIFIC DIVISION John 0. Isaacs Robert T. Orr President Secretary-Treasurer Y(C) .Taylor "I RICHARDH BO...
متن کاملRocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Panama
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.
متن کاملRocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Colombia
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.
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عنوان ژورنال: Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0012-9623
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9623-94.2.195