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Case Reports
. 2007 Jul;13(7):1058-60.
doi: 10.3201/eid1307.060537.

Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Colombia

Marylin Hidalgo  1 , Leonora Orejuela, Patricia Fuya, Pilar Carrillo, Jorge Hernandez, Edgar Parra, Colette Keng, Melissa Small, Juan P Olano, Donald Bouyer, Elizabeth Castaneda, David Walker, Gustavo Valbuena
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Case Reports

Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Colombia

Marylin Hidalgo et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2007 Jul.

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.

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Immunohistochemical analysis shows the presence of spotted fever group rickettsiae (brown) in vessels of brain of a patient with fatal Rocky Mountain spotted fever (magnification ×400).
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