Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Colombia.
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 aaainst spotted fever group rickettsiae.
Hidalgo
Marylin
M
Instituto Nacional de Salud, Bogota, Colombia.
Orejuela
Leonora
L
Fuya
Patricia
P
Carrillo
Pilar
P
Hernandez
Jorge
J
Parra
Edgar
E
Keng
Colette
C
Small
Melissa
M
Olano
Juan P
JP
Bouyer
Donald
D
Castaneda
Elizabeth
E
Walker
David
D
Valbuena
Gustavo
G
D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial / Q000097:blood*; D001096:Arachnid Vectors / Q000382:microbiology*; D003105:Colombia / Q000453:epidemiology; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D011251:Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality; D012284:Rickettsia rickettsii / Q000276:immunology*; D012373:Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality / Q000635:transmission; D018571:Sentinel Surveillance; D013987:Ticks / Q000382:microbiology*
D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial