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ID DOID:0050052
Name Rocky Mountain spotted fever
Definition A spotted fever that has_material_basis_in Rickettsia rickettsii, which is transmitted_by ticks (Dermacentor variabilis and Dermacentor andersoni). The infection has_symptom fever, has_symptom headache, has_symptom abdominal pain, and has_symptom maculopapular rash progressing into papular or petechial rash.
http://www.cdc.gov/otherspottedfever/index.html, http://cmr.asm.org/cgi/content/full/18/4/719#Rickettsia_rickettsii_%28Rocky_Mountain_spotted_fever%29
Xrefs

GARD:7585

MESH:D012373

Alternateids

DOID:0050056

DOID:1708

Subsets

DO_infectious_disease_slim

DO_rare_slim

gram-negative_bacterial_infectious_disease

tick-borne_infectious_disease

zoonotic_infectious_disease

Synonyms

Brazilian spotted [RELATED]

Choix [RELATED]

Exanthematic typhus of Sao Paulo [RELATED]

Fiebre maculosa [RELATED]

Fiebre manchada [RELATED]

Sao Paulo typhus [RELATED]

So Paulo fever [RELATED]

Tick typhus [EXACT]

Tobia fever [RELATED]

Parent Relationships

is_a spotted fever

Subclass Logical Relationships

has symptom some abdominal pain

has material basis in some Rickettsia rickettsii

transmitted by some Dermacentor variabilis

transmitted by some tick borne transmission

has symptom some headache

has symptom some maculopapular rash

has symptom some fever

transmitted by some Dermacentor andersoni

has symptom some papular rash

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