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Volume 31, Number 10—October 2025

Research Letter

Jorge Lobo’s Disease in Child with Tick Exposure, Brazil

Franciely Gomes Gonçalves, Gabriel Zorello Laporta, Sebastião Afonso Viana Macedo Neves, Vânia Lúcia Queiroz de Barros, Rosineide Ferreira Bispo, Yally Alves da Silva Sbardelott, Pablo José Custódio Bezerra da Silva, Luiza Alves Vianna, Bernardo Guerra Tenório, João Paulo Romualdo Alarcão Bernardes, Florêncio Figueiredo Cavalcanti Neto, João Nóbrega de Almeida, and Marcus de Melo TeixeiraComments to Author 
Author affiliation: Centro Universitário Uninorte (UNINORTE), Rio Branco, Brazil (F.G. Gonçalves); Centro Universitário FMABC, Fundação ABC, Santo André, Brazil (F.G. Gonçalves, G.Z. Laporta); Serviço Estadual de Dermatologia do Acre, Rio Branco (F.G. Gonçalves, V.L.Q. de Barros, R.F. Bispo, Y.A. da S. Sbardelott, P.J.C.B. Sliva); Núcleo de Medicina Tropical, Faculty of Medicine, University of Brasília, Campus Universitário Darcy Ribeiro, Brasília, Brazil (S.A.V.M. Neves, L.A. Vianna, B.G. Tenório, J.P.R.A. Bernardes, M. de Melo Teixeira); Faculdade de Saúde e Medicina, Universidade Católica de Brasília, Taguatinga-DF, Brazil (F.F.C. Neto); Antimicrobial Resistance Institute of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (J. Nóbrega de Almeida Jr); Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo (J. Nóbrega de Almeida Jr, M. de Melo Teixeria)

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Location of a case of Jorge Lobo’s disease in child with tick exposure, Brazil. The patient resided near the Brazil–Bolivia border and was diagnosed in Brasiléia, Acre state, Brazil. Brasiléia is situated between the municipalities of Xapuri and Epitaciolândia in Acre, also known as Brasiléia–Epitaciolândia–Xapuri immediate region. This zone borders Bolivia within a dense rainforest region of the western Amazon and is marked by rubber plantations and extractive activities.

Figure 2. Location of a case of Jorge Lobo’s disease in child with tick exposure, Brazil. The patient resided near the Brazil–Bolivia border and was diagnosed in Brasiléia, Acre state, Brazil. Brasiléia is situated between the municipalities of Xapuri and Epitaciolândia in Acre, also known as Brasiléia–Epitaciolândia–Xapuri immediate region. This zone borders Bolivia within a dense rainforest region of the western Amazon and is marked by rubber plantations and extractive activities.

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