Emerging Infectious Diseases (Sep 2020)

Typhus Group Rickettsiosis, Brazilian Amazon

  • Antonio H.H. Minervino,
  • Marcelo B. Labruna,
  • Salatiel R. Dias,
  • Francisco B. Costa,
  • Thiago F. Martins,
  • Phablo N.S. da Silva,
  • Álvaro A. Faccini-Martínez

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2609.201305
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 26, no. 9
pp. 2294 – 2296

Abstract

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Rickettsia rickettsii infection is the only rickettsiosis included in the list of reportable diseases in Brazil, where typhus group rickettsioses, mainly murine typhus, have been underreported. We report a case of typhus group rickettsiosis with unique ecologic particularities in a patient from the Brazilian Amazon, where, to our knowledge, rickettsioses have not been reported.

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