title: Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
abstract: Rocky Mountain spotted fever, the most prevalent rickettsial disease in the United States, is one of the most severe of all infectious diseases. It remains an important infectious disease because of its prevalence, the difficulty of clinical diagnosis, potentially fatal outcome, and lack of a widely available sensitive and specific diagnostic test during the acute stage of the illness.
authors.affiliation: Department of Hospital Epidemiology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Weber
authors.forename: D H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Walker
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001096:Arachnid Vectors / Q000382:microbiology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D012284:Rickettsia rickettsii / Q000502:physiology*; D012373:Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000628:therapy; D013987:Ticks / Q000382:microbiology; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology