Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jul 2007)

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Colombia

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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1307.060537
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 7
pp. 1058 – 1058

Abstract

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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 against spotted fever group rickettsiae.

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