| evidence of rickettsial spotted fever and ehrlichial infections in a subtropical territory of jujuy, argentina. | between november 1993 and march 1994, a cluster 6 pediatric patients with acute febrile illnesses associated with rashes was identified in jujuy province, argentina. immunohistochemical staining of tissues confirmed spotted fever group rickettsial infection in a patient with fatal disease, and testing of serum of a patient convalescing from the illness by using an indirect immunofluorescence assay (ifa) demonstrated antibodies reactive with spotted fever group rickettsiae. a serosurvey was condu ... | 1999 | 10463693 |
| rocky mountain spotted fever in argentina. | we describe the first molecular confirmation of rickettsia rickettsii, the cause of rocky mountain spotted fever (rmsf), from a tick vector, amblyomma cajennense, and from a cluster of fatal spotted fever cases in argentina. questing a. cajennense ticks were collected at or near sites of presumed or confirmed cases of spotted fever rickettsiosis in jujuy province and evaluated by polymerase chain reaction assays for spotted fever group rickettsiae. dna of r. rickettsii was amplified from a pool ... | 2008 | 18385370 |