A forty-year review of Rocky Mountain spotted fever cases in California shows clinical and epidemiologic changes.

• Main Authors: Anne M Kjemtrup (Author), Kerry Padgett (Author), Christopher D Paddock (Author), Sharon Messenger (Author), Jill K Hacker (Author), Tina Feiszli (Author), Michael Melgar (Author), Marco E Metzger (Author), Renjie Hu (Author), Vicki L Kramer (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2022-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) is a life-threatening tick-borne disease documented in North, Central, and South America. In California, RMSF is rare; nonetheless, recent fatal cases highlight ecological cycles of the two genera of ticks, Dermacentor and Rhipicephalus, known to transmit the dise...