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- Title
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Mimicking Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Hospitalized Children, Sonora, Mexico.
- Authors
Álvarez-Hernández, Gerardo; Rivera-Rosas, Cristian N.; Calleja-López, J. R. Tadeo; McCormick, David W.; Paddock, Christopher D.; Álvarez-Meza, Jehan Bonizú; Correa-Morales, Fabián
- Abstract
We describe 5 children who had Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) and manifested clinical symptoms similar to multisystem inflammatory syndrome in Sonora, Mexico, where RMSF is hyperendemic. Physicians should consider RMSF in differential diagnoses of hospitalized patients with multisystem inflammatory syndrome to prevent illness and death caused by rickettsial disease.
- Subjects
SONORA (Mexico : State); MULTISYSTEM inflammatory syndrome in children; MULTISYSTEM inflammatory syndrome; RICKETTSIAL diseases; FEVER; PHYSICIANS
- Publication
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2024, Vol 30, Issue 7, p1463
- ISSN
1080-6040
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3201/eid3007.240033