Rocky Mountain spotted fever in Mexico: past, present, and future

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2017, Pages e189-e196

  Álvarez Hernández, Gerardo ^a   Roldán, Jesús Felipe González ^b   Milan, Néstor Saúl Hernández ^c   Lash, R Ryan ^d   Behravesh, Casey Barton ^d   Paddock, Christopher D ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE SONORA   (Mexico)

^b National Council for the Prevention   (Mexico)

^c Institute of Public Health Services of the State of Baja California   (Mexico)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASE FATALITY RATE; EPIDEMIC; FEVER; HISTORICAL RESEARCH; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; MEXICO; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; REVIEW; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; ANIMAL; DOG; DOG DISEASES; GENETICS; HISTORY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; TICK INFESTATION;

ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MEXICO; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; TICK INFESTATIONS;

EID: 85016457356     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(17)30173-1     Document Type: Review

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