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eMedicine - Tick-Borne Diseases, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever : Article by Richa

http://www.emedicine.com/EMERG/topic510.htm

Tick-Borne Diseases, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever - Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF), characterized by fever, myalgias, headache, and a petechial rash, is the most common fatal tick-borne disease in the United States. As one of the spotted fevers, it belongs to a large group of tick- and mite-born infections caused by closely related rickettsiae. These organisms are small, gram-negative bacteria that grow strictly in eukaryotic cells. Rickettsia rickettsii is the organism responsible for RMSF.The tick that functions as ...

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