Clinical and laboratorial evidence of Rickettsia felis infections in Latin America
After the discovery and initial characterization of Rickettsia felis in 1992 by Azad and cols, and the subsequent first description of a human case of infection in 1994, there have been two communications of human rickettsiosis cases caused by Rickettsia felis in Latin America. The first one was pub...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:d90127a2b8014f1cad76e8fcae7187fb 2023-05-15T15:02:42+02:00 Clinical and laboratorial evidence of Rickettsia felis infections in Latin America Márcio Antônio Moreira Galvão Cláudio Mafra Chequer Buffe Chamone Simone Berger Calic Jorge E. Zavala-Velazquez David Hughes Walker 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z https://doaj.org/article/d90127a2b8014f1cad76e8fcae7187fb EN eng Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0037-86822004000300009&tlng=en https://doaj.org/toc/1678-9849 1678-9849 https://doaj.org/article/d90127a2b8014f1cad76e8fcae7187fb Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, Vol 37, Iss 3, Pp 238-240 (2004) Rickettsia felis Rickettsioses Latin America Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine RC955-962 article 2004 ftdoajarticles 2022-12-31T03:21:25Z After the discovery and initial characterization of Rickettsia felis in 1992 by Azad and cols, and the subsequent first description of a human case of infection in 1994, there have been two communications of human rickettsiosis cases caused by Rickettsia felis in Latin America. The first one was published in 2000 by Zavala-Velazquez and cols in Mexico. In 2001 Raoult and cols described the occurrence of two human cases of Rickettsia felis rickettsiosis in Brazil. In the present discussion these two articles were compared and after the description of the principal signs and symptoms, it was concluded that more studies are needed with descriptions of a greater number of patients to establish the true frequency of the clinical signs and symptoms present in Rickettsia felis rickettsiosis. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic |
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After the discovery and initial characterization of Rickettsia felis in 1992 by Azad and cols, and the subsequent first description of a human case of infection in 1994, there have been two communications of human rickettsiosis cases caused by Rickettsia felis in Latin America. The first one was published in 2000 by Zavala-Velazquez and cols in Mexico. In 2001 Raoult and cols described the occurrence of two human cases of Rickettsia felis rickettsiosis in Brazil. In the present discussion these two articles were compared and after the description of the principal signs and symptoms, it was concluded that more studies are needed with descriptions of a greater number of patients to establish the true frequency of the clinical signs and symptoms present in Rickettsia felis rickettsiosis. |
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Márcio Antônio Moreira Galvão Cláudio Mafra Chequer Buffe Chamone Simone Berger Calic Jorge E. Zavala-Velazquez David Hughes Walker |
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Márcio Antônio Moreira Galvão Cláudio Mafra Chequer Buffe Chamone Simone Berger Calic Jorge E. Zavala-Velazquez David Hughes Walker |
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Clinical and laboratorial evidence of Rickettsia felis infections in Latin America |
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Clinical and laboratorial evidence of Rickettsia felis infections in Latin America |
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Clinical and laboratorial evidence of Rickettsia felis infections in Latin America |
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Clinical and laboratorial evidence of Rickettsia felis infections in Latin America |
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Clinical and laboratorial evidence of Rickettsia felis infections in Latin America |
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clinical and laboratorial evidence of rickettsia felis infections in latin america |
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