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Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in Dogs, Brazil |
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| Authors: | Marcelo B. Labruna Orson Kamakura Jonas Moraes-Filho Mauricio C. Horta Richard C. Pacheco |
| Affiliation: | University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (M.B. Labruna, J. Moraes-Filho, M.C. Horta, R.C. Pacheco);Instituto Dog Bakery de Medicina Animal, São Paulo (O. Kamakura) |
| Abstract: | Clinical illness caused by Rickettsia rickettsii in dogs has been reported solely in the United States. We report 2 natural clinical cases of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in dogs in Brazil. Each case was confirmed by seroconversion and molecular analysis and resolved after doxycycline therapy. |
| Keywords: | Rickettsia rickettsii dogs Rocky Mountain spotted fever Brazil dispatch |