2010, Number 2
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Med Int Mex 2010; 26 (2)
Rickettsiosis. A report of two cases, into an outbreak in Mexicali, Baja California
Jaramillo RHJ, Rodríguez M
Language: Spanish
References: 10
Page: 180-182
PDF size: 179.39 Kb.
ABSTRACT
The present case, young man, with picture of fever, exanthema and organic failure, in Mexicali’s city, Baja California, in whom diagnostic posmortem infection for Ricketsia ricketsii, being this one of several cases presented in this community, in the middle of an outbreak.
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