Emerging Infectious Diseases (Dec 2019)

Fatal Brazilian Spotted Fever Associated with Dogs and Amblyomma aureolatum Ticks, Brazil, 2013

  • Elisa S.M.M. Savani,
  • Francisco B. Costa,
  • Elisabete A. Silva,
  • Ana C.F. Couto,
  • Melanie Gutjahr,
  • Juliana N.M.O. Alves,
  • Fabiana C.P. Santos,
  • Marcelo B. Labruna

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2512.191146
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 25, no. 12
pp. 2322 – 2323

Abstract

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In São Paulo metropolitan area, Brazil, Amblyomma aureolatum ticks are the main vector of Rickettsia rickettsii, which causes Brazilian spotted fever. In 2013, a boy in São Paulo died of Brazilian spotted fever associated with household dogs and A. aureolatum ticks. Prompt recognition and treatment of this illness might prevent deaths.

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