Title
Rickettsia felis rickettsiosis in Yucatan
Date Issued
23 September 2000
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Zavala-Velázquez J.E.
Ruiz-Sosa J.A.
Zavala-Castro J.
Jiménez-Delgadillo B.
Vado-Solis I.E.
Sánchez-Elias R.A.
Becerra-Carmona G.
Bouyer D.H.
Walker D.H.
University of Texas Medical Branch
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
Three patients with fever, exanthem, headache, and central-nervous-system involvement were diagnosed with Rickettsia felis infection by specific PCR of blood or skin and seroconversion to surrogate Rickettsia antigens. Although R felis's relationship to other Rickettsia species is known and the pathogenic potential of this clade is well documented, R felis's role as a pathogen has not been fully understood.
Start page
1079
End page
1080
Volume
356
Issue
9235
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Enfermedades infecciosas
Epidemiología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-0034706327
PubMed ID
Source
Lancet
ISSN of the container
01406736
Sponsor(s)
We thank Josie Ramirez-Kim for assistance in the preparation of the paper. This study was suported by grants from Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (3055 P-M 9607), for International Training in Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases from the Fogarty International Center (ID43TW/00903–01), and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (AI-31413 and AI-21242).
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