Rickettsiosis: a deadly emerging and re-emerging disease in Colombia.
Rickettsiosis was first described in Colombia in 1937 by Dr Luis Patiño during an outbreak of a disease with unspecific signs. Rickettsia is a genus of Gram-negative intracellular obligatory bacteria having caused several epidemics around the world, and are transmitted mainly by ticks, fleas, lice a...
| Autor Principal: | Quintero Vélez, Juan Carlos; Grupo de investigación Centauro, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad de Antioquia. Colombia. |
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| Otros Autores: | Hidalgo, Marylin; Grupo de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Departamento de Microbiología. Facultad de Ciencias. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Bogotá, D.C. Colombia., Rodas González, Juan David; Grupo de investigación Centauro, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad de Antioquia. Colombia. |
| Formato: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
| Idioma: | eng |
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Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
2012
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http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/scientarium/article/view/2485 |
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Rickettsiosis was first described in Colombia in 1937 by Dr Luis Patiño during an outbreak of a disease with unspecific signs. Rickettsia is a genus of Gram-negative intracellular obligatory bacteria having caused several epidemics around the world, and are transmitted mainly by ticks, fleas, lice and mites. The most fatal within this group of diseases is known as Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (RMSF), which is caused by Rickettsia rickettsia. There is also the endemic typhus caused by Rickettsia typhi and epidemic typhus caused by Rickettsia prowazekii. In Colombia, several outbreaks of RMSF have occurred during the last decade. The best known among those have hit the municipalities of Necoclí and Turbo, in Antioquia in 2006 and 2008 respectively, and Los Cordobas in the department of Cordoba in 2007. The goal of this review is to describe the state of the art of rickettsiosis, a forgotten lethal disease that has re-emerged in our country, and leave some questions as an inspiration for future research that will hopefully lead scientists to a better understanding of this entity potentially endemic in some areas of Colombia.Key words: outbreak, emerging, reservoir, rickettsiosis, vector, typhus, zoonoses. |
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