Epidemiologic profile and clinical course of four confirmed rickettsiosis cases in Southern Mexico during 2016

Domestic animals can carry ticks or fleas, which constitute common vectors of rickettsial infections. The contact with them should be considered as suggestive of rickettsial infections in symptomatic patients. Misdiagnosis might occur in regions where other vector‐borne diseases are endemic. Anamnes...

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Autores principales: Dzul‐Rosado, Karla R., Mendez, Nina, Lugo‐Caballero, Cesar, Zavala‐Castro, Jorge E., Gomez‐Carro, Salvador
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5771939/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29375850
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1303
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author Dzul‐Rosado, Karla R.
Mendez, Nina
Lugo‐Caballero, Cesar
Zavala‐Castro, Jorge E.
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description Domestic animals can carry ticks or fleas, which constitute common vectors of rickettsial infections. The contact with them should be considered as suggestive of rickettsial infections in symptomatic patients. Misdiagnosis might occur in regions where other vector‐borne diseases are endemic. Anamnesis is essential for an accurate clinical diagnosis.
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spelling pubmed-57719392018-01-26 Epidemiologic profile and clinical course of four confirmed rickettsiosis cases in Southern Mexico during 2016 Dzul‐Rosado, Karla R. Mendez, Nina Lugo‐Caballero, Cesar Zavala‐Castro, Jorge E. Gomez‐Carro, Salvador Clin Case Rep Case Reports Domestic animals can carry ticks or fleas, which constitute common vectors of rickettsial infections. The contact with them should be considered as suggestive of rickettsial infections in symptomatic patients. Misdiagnosis might occur in regions where other vector‐borne diseases are endemic. Anamnesis is essential for an accurate clinical diagnosis. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017-11-29 /pmc/articles/PMC5771939/ /pubmed/29375850 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1303 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Epidemiologic profile and clinical course of four confirmed rickettsiosis cases in Southern Mexico during 2016
title Epidemiologic profile and clinical course of four confirmed rickettsiosis cases in Southern Mexico during 2016
title_full Epidemiologic profile and clinical course of four confirmed rickettsiosis cases in Southern Mexico during 2016
title_fullStr Epidemiologic profile and clinical course of four confirmed rickettsiosis cases in Southern Mexico during 2016
title_full_unstemmed Epidemiologic profile and clinical course of four confirmed rickettsiosis cases in Southern Mexico during 2016
title_short Epidemiologic profile and clinical course of four confirmed rickettsiosis cases in Southern Mexico during 2016
title_sort epidemiologic profile and clinical course of four confirmed rickettsiosis cases in southern mexico during 2016
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5771939/
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