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ArticleEmerging infectious diseases2024

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Mimicking Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Hospitalized Children, Sonora, Mexico.

Gerardo Álvarez-Hernández, Cristian N Rivera-Rosas, J R Tadeo Calleja-López, David W McCormick, Christopher D Paddock, Jehan Bonizú Álvarez-Meza, Fabián Correa-Morales

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Article in Emerging infectious diseases, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. MIS-C: Diagnosis, Management, and Outcomes.Open forum infectious diseases · 2026
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  2. Infection and immunity · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors.

Gerardo Álvarez-Hernández
Cristian N Rivera-Rosas
J R Tadeo Calleja-López
David W McCormick
Christopher D Paddock
Jehan Bonizú Álvarez-Meza
Fabián Correa-Morales

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We describe 5 children who had Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) and manifested clinical symptoms similar to multisystem inflammatory syndrome in Sonora, Mexico, where RMSF is hyperendemic. Physicians should consider RMSF in differential diagnoses of hospitalized patients with multisystem inflammatory syndrome to prevent illness and death caused by rickettsial disease.

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Rocky Mountain Spotted FeverSystemic Inflammatory Response SyndromeAdolescentChildChild, PreschoolDiagnosis, DifferentialFemaleHospitalizationHumansMaleMexicobacteriachildrencoronaviruscoronavirus diseaseCOVID-19MexicoMIS-Cmultisystem inflammatory syndromerespiratory infectionsRickettsiaRocky Mountain spotted feverSARSSARS-CoV-2severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2vector-borne infectionsviruseszoonoses

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PMID38861505
PMCPMC11210667

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