A seroepidemiologic study of human infections with spotted fever group rickettsiae in North Carolina
Meagan F. Vaughn et al, September 2014, doi:10.1128/JCM.01733-14 ABSTRACT Increasing entomologic and epidemiologic evidence suggests that spotted fever group rickettsiae (SFGR) other than Rickettsia rickettsii are responsible for spotted fever rickettsioses in the US. A retrospective seroepidemiologic study was conducted on stored acute and convalescent sera that had been submitted for Rocky Mountain spotted fever testing to…