| rocky mountain spotted fever in mexico: past, present, and future. | rocky mountain spotted fever, a tick-borne zoonosis caused by rickettsia rickettsii, is among the most lethal of all infectious diseases in the americas. in mexico, the disease was first described during the early 1940s by scientists who carefully documented specific environmental determinants responsible for devastating outbreaks in several communities in the states of sinaloa, sonora, durango, and coahuila. these investigators also described the pivotal roles of domesticated dogs and rhipiceph ... | 2017 | 28365226 |
| notes from the field: community-based prevention of rocky mountain spotted fever - sonora, mexico, 2016. | rocky mountain spotted fever (rmsf), a life-threatening tickborne zoonosis caused by rickettsia rickettsii, is a reemerging disease in mexico (1,2). r. rickettsii is an intracellular bacterium that infects vascular endothelium and can cause multisystem organ failure and death in the absence of timely administration of a tetracycline-class antibiotic, typically doxycycline. epidemic rmsf, as described in parts of arizona and mexico, is associated with massive local infestations of the brown dog t ... | 2016 | 27880753 |
| [mortality from rickettsia rickettsii spotted fever in patients at a pediatric hospital in the state of sonora, 2004-2012]. | | 2013 | 23546404 |
| rocky mountain spotted fever and pregnancy: four cases from sonora, mexico. | we present a series of four pregnant women with rocky mountain spotted fever (rmsf) that occurred in sonora, mexico, during 2015-2016. confirmatory diagnoses were made by polymerase chain reaction or serological reactivity to antigens of rickettsia rickettsii by using an indirect immunofluorescence antibody assay. each patient presented with fever and petechial rash and was treated successfully with doxycycline. each of the women and one full-term infant delivered at 36 weeks gestation survived ... | 2017 | 28722584 |