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Rocky Mountain spotted fever

A rare, acquired, life-threatening, infectious disease due to the tick-borne bacteria <i>Rickettsia rickettsii</i> characterized by an acute onset of fever, malaise, and severe headache, variably accompanied by myalgia, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and photophobia, associating (2-5 days after fever onset) a typically erythematous, blanching or non-blanching, maculopapluar rash with petechiae, starting on the wrists and ankles and progressing centrifugally to the palms and soles and centripetally to the arms, legs and trunk. Additonal variable features may include conjunctivitis, mucosal ulcers, post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation, jaundice, pneumonia, hepatomegaly, renal failure, meningismus, amnesia, optic disc edema, and ocular arterial occlusion. [from ORDO]

MedGen UID:
48500
Concept ID:
C0035793
Disease or Syndrome
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Spotted fever

A type of tick-borne disease which presents on the skin caused by bacteria of the genus Rickettsia. [from MONDO]

MedGen UID:
1826170
Concept ID:
C5680374
Disease or Syndrome
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Rickettsiosis

A group of infectious diseases that is caused by Rickettsia. [from NCI]

MedGen UID:
20584
Concept ID:
C0035585
Disease or Syndrome
4.

Rickettsiaceae infectious disease

Infections with bacteria of the family rickettsiaceae. [from MONDO]

MedGen UID:
963887
Concept ID:
CN281660
Disease or Syndrome
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