TY - JOUR AU - Hidalgo, Marylin AU - Orejuela, Leonora AU - Fuya, Patricia AU - Carrillo, Pilar AU - Hernandez, Jorge AU - Parra, Edgar AU - Keng, Colette AU - Small, Melissa AU - Olano, Juan P. AU - Bouyer, Donald AU - Castaneda, Elizabeth AU - Walker, David AU - Valbuena, Gustavo T1 - Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Colombia T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2007 VL - 13 IS - 7 SP - 1058 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We investigated 2 fatal cases of Rocky Mountain spotted fever that occurred in 2003 and 2004 near the same locality in Colombia where the disease was first reported in the 1930s. A retrospective serosurvey of febrile patients showed that >21% of the serum samples had antibodies against spotted fever group rickettsiae. KW - Rickettsia KW - Rocky Mountain spotted fever KW - Colombia KW - ticks KW - epidemiology KW - communicable diseases KW - emerging KW - dispatch DO - 10.3201/eid1307.060537 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/13/7/06-0537_article ER - End of Reference