Volume 10, Number 5—May 2004

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Fatal Spotted Fever Rickettsiosis, Kenya

Jeremiah S. Rutherford*, Kevin Macaluso† , Nathaniel Smith‡, Sherif R. Zaki§, Christopher D. Paddock§, Jon Davis*, Norman Peterso*, Abdu F. Azad†, and Ronald Rosenberg*

Author affiliations: *United States Army Medical Research Unit, Nairobi, Kenya; †University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; ‡Kijabe African Inland Church Mission Hospital, Kijabe, Kenya; §Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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Figure 1

Figure 1. Vasculitis and edema involving medium-sized artery in the subcutaneous fat at the site of the eschar (hematoxylin and eosin stain; original magnification x100).

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