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Unearthing An Emerging Neglected Bacterial Disease: Evidence Of Spotted Fever Group Rickettsioses In El Salvador, Kyndall Christian Braumuller
Unearthing An Emerging Neglected Bacterial Disease: Evidence Of Spotted Fever Group Rickettsioses In El Salvador, Kyndall Christian Braumuller
Theses and Dissertations
The main objectives of this dissertation were to investigate the seroprevalence of Spotted Fever Group Rickettsioses (SFGR) antibodies in a specific vulnerable population at high risk for vector-borne disease in El Salvador, understand the relevant risk factors for SFGR past and acute infection in this same population through logistic regression modeling, and clarify the presence of SFGR bacteria in locally collected ticks.
SFGR are a group of bacterial diseases caused by species in the Rickettsia genus of the phylogenetic spotted fever group. These are tick-borne diseases (TBD) that have been described in almost every region of the world. SFGR are …