| [severe spotted fever by rickettsia rickettsii, in tourist in the argentine northwest]. | on the fifth day after leaving the parque nacional el rey, province of salta, argentina, where she made rural tourism, a woman of italian origin, aged 47, developed an acute fever followed by a petechial and purpuric rash that progressed rapidly to multiorgan failure. she died on the sixth day after hospitalization. there were references to tick bites and a skin lesion similar to tache noire was found. the autopsy showed generalized vasculitis, ascites, pulmonary edema, acute tubular necrosis an ... | 2016 | 27723622 |