Harvard Catalyst Profiles

Contact, publication, and social network information about Harvard faculty and fellows.

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

"Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

MeSH information
Definition  |  Details  |  More General Concepts  |  Related Concepts  |  More Specific Concepts
An acute febrile illness caused by RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII. It is transmitted to humans by bites of infected ticks and occurs only in North and South America. Characteristics include a sudden onset with headache and chills and fever lasting about two to three weeks. A cutaneous rash commonly appears on the extremities and trunk about the fourth day of illness.


publications
Timeline   |   Most Recent
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 9 publications over 6 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 1998 and 2012 and 2014
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.
Related Networks
People
Explore
_
Similar Concepts
_
Top Journals 
_
© 2024 President and Fellows of Harvard College
Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.