Risk Factors for Fatal Outcome From Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in a Highly Endemic Area—Arizona, 2002–2011 | Zendy

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Risk Factors for Fatal Outcome From Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in a Highly Endemic Area—Arizona, 2002–2011

Author(s) -

Joanna J. Regan,

Marc Traeger,

Dwight Humpherys,

Dianna L. Mahoney,

Michelle Janania Martinez,

Ginny L. Emerson,

Danielle M. Tack,

Aimee Geissler,

Seema Yasmin,

Regina Lawson,

Velda Williams,

Charlene Hamilton,

Craig Levy,

Ken Komatsu,

David A. Yost,

Jennifer H. McQuiston

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1093/cid/civ116

Subject(s) - rocky mountain spotted fever , medicine , case fatality rate , disease , demography , epidemiology , pathology , sociology

Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) is a disease that now causes significant morbidity and mortality on several American Indian reservations in Arizona. Although the disease is treatable, reported RMSF case fatality rates from this region are high (7%) compared to the rest of the nation (<1%), suggesting a need to identify clinical points for intervention.

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