Emerging Infectious Diseases (Mar 2009)

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in Dogs, Brazil

  • Marcelo B. Labruna,
  • Orson Kamakura,
  • Jonas Moraes-Filho,
  • Mauricio C. Horta,
  • Richard C. Pacheco

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1503.081227
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 3
pp. 458 – 460

Abstract

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Clinical illness caused by Rickettsia rickettsii in dogs has been reported solely in the United States. We report 2 natural clinical cases of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in dogs in Brazil. Each case was confirmed by seroconversion and molecular analysis and resolved after doxycycline therapy.

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