First description of a clinical case of murine typhus in Campeche, Mexico
Abstract Murine typhus is a flea-borne disease caused by Rickettsia typhi, which was first detected in Mexico in 1927. It was not until 1996 that the first systematized study involving this pathogen was conducted in two coastal states of Mexico. We now report the first confirmed case of murine typhu...
Main Authors: | Selene Blum-Domínguez, Sokani Sánchez-Montes, Luis Alberto Núñez-Oreza, José Mendoza-Zamudio, Ingeborg Becker, Miriam Berzunza-Cruz, Paulino Tamay-Segovia |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT)
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Series: | Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0037-86822019000100718&lng=en&tlng=en |
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