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We conducted enhanced acute febrile illness surveillance in an urban slum community in Salvador, Brazil. We found that rickettsial infection accounted for 3.5% of urgent care visits for acute fever.… Click to show full abstract
We conducted enhanced acute febrile illness surveillance in an urban slum community in Salvador, Brazil. We found that rickettsial infection accounted for 3.5% of urgent care visits for acute fever. Our results suggest that rickettsiae might be an underrecognized, treatable cause of acute febrile illness in impoverished urban populations in Brazil.
Keywords:
rickettsial infections;
acute febrile;
infections causing;
febrile illness
Journal Title: Emerging Infectious Diseases
Year Published: 2022
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Journal Title: Emerging Infectious Diseases
Year Published: 2022
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