1. Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Colombia.
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Hidalgo, Marylin, Orejuela, Leonora, Fuya, Patricia, Carrillo, Pilar, Hernandez, Jorge, Parra, Edgar, Keng, Colette, Small, Melissa, Olano, Juan P., Bouyer, Donald, Castaneda, Elizabeth, Walker, David, and Valbuena, Gustavo
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ROCKY Mountain spotted fever ,RICKETTSIAL diseases ,SERUM ,IMMUNOGLOBULINS - Abstract
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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
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