Newly Recognized Pediatric Cases of Typhus Group Rickettsiosis, Houston, Texas, USA

An increase in typhus group rickettsiosis and an expanding geographic range occurred in Texas, USA, over a decade. Because this illness commonly affects children, we retrospectively examined medical records from 2008–2016 at a large Houston-area pediatric hospital and identified 36 cases. The earlie...

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Autores principales: Erickson, Timothy, da Silva, Juliana, Nolan, Melissa S., Marquez, Lucila, Munoz, Flor M., Murray, Kristy O.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5708246/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29148369
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2312.170631
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author Erickson, Timothy
da Silva, Juliana
Nolan, Melissa S.
Marquez, Lucila
Munoz, Flor M.
Murray, Kristy O.
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description An increase in typhus group rickettsiosis and an expanding geographic range occurred in Texas, USA, over a decade. Because this illness commonly affects children, we retrospectively examined medical records from 2008–2016 at a large Houston-area pediatric hospital and identified 36 cases. The earliest known cases were diagnosed in 2011.
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spelling pubmed-57082462017-12-09 Newly Recognized Pediatric Cases of Typhus Group Rickettsiosis, Houston, Texas, USA Erickson, Timothy da Silva, Juliana Nolan, Melissa S. Marquez, Lucila Munoz, Flor M. Murray, Kristy O. Emerg Infect Dis Dispatch An increase in typhus group rickettsiosis and an expanding geographic range occurred in Texas, USA, over a decade. Because this illness commonly affects children, we retrospectively examined medical records from 2008–2016 at a large Houston-area pediatric hospital and identified 36 cases. The earliest known cases were diagnosed in 2011. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2017-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5708246/ /pubmed/29148369 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2312.170631 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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Erickson, Timothy
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Marquez, Lucila
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Newly Recognized Pediatric Cases of Typhus Group Rickettsiosis, Houston, Texas, USA
title Newly Recognized Pediatric Cases of Typhus Group Rickettsiosis, Houston, Texas, USA
title_full Newly Recognized Pediatric Cases of Typhus Group Rickettsiosis, Houston, Texas, USA
title_fullStr Newly Recognized Pediatric Cases of Typhus Group Rickettsiosis, Houston, Texas, USA
title_full_unstemmed Newly Recognized Pediatric Cases of Typhus Group Rickettsiosis, Houston, Texas, USA
title_short Newly Recognized Pediatric Cases of Typhus Group Rickettsiosis, Houston, Texas, USA
title_sort newly recognized pediatric cases of typhus group rickettsiosis, houston, texas, usa
topic Dispatch
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