Old and new human rickettsiosis in Minas Gerais state, Brazil.

Calic, Simone Berger; Rocha, Christiane Maria Barcellos Magalhães da; Leite, Romário Cerqueira; Mafra, Cláudio Lísias; Galvão, Márcio Antônio Moreira

Old and new human rickettsiosis in Minas Gerais state, Brazil.

Data

2005

Autores

Calic, Simone Berger

Rocha, Christiane Maria Barcellos Magalhães da

Leite, Romário Cerqueira

Mafra, Cláudio Lísias

Galvão, Márcio Antônio Moreira

Resumo

The authors describe cases of Brazilian spotted fever (BSF) diagnosed in Minas Gerais state, Brazil, by the Minas Gerais Public Health Laboratory, Ezequiel Dias Foundation from 1995 to 2004. In addition they present three cases of human Rickettsia felis rickettsiosis from Minas Gerais diagnosed in France in 1999, and the first two suspected cases of human monocytic ehrlichiosis (HME) diagnosed in Ezequiel Dias Foundation in 2001. In both cases a differential diagnose was made with BSF.

Palavras-chave

Rickettsioses, Ehrlichioses, Brazilian spotted fever

Citação

CARLIC, S. B. et al. Old and new human rickettsiosis in Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, New York, v. 1063, p. 356-357, 2005. Disponível em: <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1196/annals.1355.059/abstract>. Acesso em: 29 jan. 2017.