Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in a Large Metropolitan Center, Mexico–United States Border, 2009–2019
Oscar E. Zazueta

, Paige A. Armstrong, Adriana Márquez-Elguea, Néstor Saúl Hernández Milán, Amy E. Peterson, Diego F. Ovalle-Marroquín, Maria Fierro, Rodolfo Arroyo-Machado, Moises Rodriguez-Lomeli, Guillermo Trejo-Dozal, and Christopher D. Paddock
Author affiliations: Secretariat of Health of Baja California (Instituto de Servicios de Salud Pública del Estado de Baja California), Mexicali, Mexico (O.E. Zazueta, A. Márquez-Elguea, N.S.H. Milán, D.F. Ovalle-Marroquín, R. Arroyo-Machado, M. Rodriguez-Lomeli, G. Trejo-Dozal); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (P.A. Armstrong, A.E. Peterson, C.D. Paddock); Imperial Country Public Health Department, El Centro, California, USA (M. Fierro)
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Figure 4. Geographic distribution of all PCR-positive cases of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in Mexicali (A) and the Mexicali Valley (B), Mexico, 2009–2019. Outlined areas represent census-related Basic Geostatistical areas established by Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics and Geography. Numbers in circles represent the number of cases in each location.
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