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Rickettsioses constitute a diverse group of arthropod-borne human diseases capable of producing significant morbidity and mortality. They share important pathologic and clinical attributes that permit their diagnosis in most instances (Zaki. NY State J Med. 1989;89:320). Rickettsioses are responsible for a great number of deaths seen particularly in times of war. It is estimated that over three million combatants and civilians in the First World War succumbed to epidemic typhus. Among the more deadly types of infection belonging to this group is Rocky Mountain spotted fever, the principal subject of this chapter.
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Garone, M., Morgan, M.B. (2016). Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and Rickettsioses. In: Crowe, D., Morgan, M., Somach, S., Trapp, K. (eds) Deadly Dermatologic Diseases. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31566-9_31
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