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Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in Children along the US‒Mexico Border, 2017–2023
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Journal Article
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in Children along the US‒Mexico Border, 2017–2023
2024
Overview
Rocky mountain spotted fever (RMSF) causes significant illness and death in children. Although historically rare in California, USA, RMSF is endemic in areas of northern Mexico that border California. We describe 7 children with RMSF who were hospitalized at a tertiary pediatric referral center in California during 2017-2023. Five children had recent travel to Mexico with presumptive exposure, but 2 children did not report any travel outside of California. In all 7 patients, Rickettsia rickettsii DNA was detected by plasma microbial cell-free next-generation sequencing, which may be a useful diagnostic modality for RMSF, especially early in the course of illness, when standard diagnostic tests for RMSF are of limited sensitivity. A high index of suspicion and awareness of local epidemiologic trends remain most critical to recognizing the clinical syndrome of RMSF and initiating appropriate antimicrobial therapy in a timely fashion.
Publisher
U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases,Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Subject
/ bacteria
/ Child
/ Children
/ Diseases
/ Fever
/ Humans
/ Methods
/ Patients
/ Plasma
/ Proteins
/ Rickettsia rickettsii - genetics
/ Rickettsia rickettsii - isolation & purification
/ Rocky Mountain spotted fever
/ Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever - diagnosis
/ Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever - drug therapy
/ Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever - epidemiology
/ Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever - microbiology
/ Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in Children along the US‒Mexico Border, 2017–2023
/ Serology
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