TY - JOUR AU - Estripeaut, Dora AU - Aramburú, María Gabriela AU - Sáez-Llorens, Xavier AU - Thompson, Herbert A. AU - Dasch, Gregory A. AU - Paddock, Christopher D. AU - Zaki, Sherif AU - Eremeeva, Marina E. T1 - Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Panama T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2007 VL - 13 IS - 11 SP - 1763 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We describe a fatal pediatric case of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in Panama, the first, to our knowledge, since the 1950s. Diagnosis was established by immunohistochemistry, PCR, and isolation of Rickettsia rickettsii from postmortem tissues. Molecular typing demonstrated strong relatedness of the isolate to strains of R. rickettsii from Central and South America. KW - Rickettsia rickettsii KW - RMSF KW - Panama KW - immunohistochemistry KW - PCR KW - molecular typing KW - dispatch DO - 10.3201/eid1311.070931 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/13/11/07-0931_article ER - End of Reference