Contributions to rickettsioses research in Colombia (1917-1943), Luis B. Patiño Camargo

Álvaro A. Faccini-Martínez, Carlos A. Botero-García, Marylin Hidalgo

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Colombian physician Luis Benigno Patiño Camargo was one of the pioneers in the study of rickettsioses in South America, demonstrating for the first time in Colombia the presence of Rickettsia rickettsii as the etiological agent of a highly deadly exanthematic febrile syndrome in the 1930s. However, Patiño-Camargo performed other investigations from 1917-1943, which represent the first descriptions and scientific evidence of the presence of R. prowazekii and R. typhi in Colombia. Almost 60 years after the latest research conducted by Dr. Patiño-Camargo, rickettsioses were again a matter of interest and research. In the last decade over 20 research studies have been published, showing new endemic areas for R. rickettsii, as well as the description of new rickettsial species in Colombia.

Idioma originalInglés
Número de artículo33
PublicaciónRevista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo
Volumen58
DOI
EstadoPublicada - 2016

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