Scrub Typhus in Continental Chile, 2016–2018

Endemic scrub typhus was recently detected on Chiloé Island in southern Chile. We report a series of cases, acquired over a wide geographical range in continental Chile during 2016–2018, demonstrating that this emerging rickettsial infection is also found on the mainland of South America.

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Autores principales: Weitzel, Thomas, Martínez-Valdebenito, Constanza, Acosta-Jamett, Gerardo, Jiang, Ju, Richards, Allen L., Abarca, Katia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6537721/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30835200
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2506.181860
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author Weitzel, Thomas
Martínez-Valdebenito, Constanza
Acosta-Jamett, Gerardo
Jiang, Ju
Richards, Allen L.
Abarca, Katia
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spelling pubmed-65377212019-06-05 Scrub Typhus in Continental Chile, 2016–2018 Weitzel, Thomas Martínez-Valdebenito, Constanza Acosta-Jamett, Gerardo Jiang, Ju Richards, Allen L. Abarca, Katia Emerg Infect Dis Dispatch Endemic scrub typhus was recently detected on Chiloé Island in southern Chile. We report a series of cases, acquired over a wide geographical range in continental Chile during 2016–2018, demonstrating that this emerging rickettsial infection is also found on the mainland of South America. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2019-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6537721/ /pubmed/30835200 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2506.181860 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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Weitzel, Thomas
Martínez-Valdebenito, Constanza
Acosta-Jamett, Gerardo
Jiang, Ju
Richards, Allen L.
Abarca, Katia
Scrub Typhus in Continental Chile, 2016–2018
title Scrub Typhus in Continental Chile, 2016–2018
title_full Scrub Typhus in Continental Chile, 2016–2018
title_fullStr Scrub Typhus in Continental Chile, 2016–2018
title_full_unstemmed Scrub Typhus in Continental Chile, 2016–2018
title_short Scrub Typhus in Continental Chile, 2016–2018
title_sort scrub typhus in continental chile, 2016–2018
topic Dispatch
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6537721/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30835200
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2506.181860
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