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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Main Authors: Márcio Antônio Moreira Galvão, Cláudio Mafra, Chequer Buffe Chamone, Simone Berger Calic, Jorge E. Zavala-Velazquez, David Hughes Walker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 2004-06-01
Series:Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0037-86822004000300009&tlng=en