TY - JOUR
T1 - Contributions to rickettsioses research in Colombia (1917-1943), Luis B. Patiño Camargo
AU - Faccini-Martínez, Álvaro A.
AU - Botero-García, Carlos A.
AU - Hidalgo, Marylin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo. All rights reserved.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Colombia
KW - Rickettsia infections
KW - Rickettsia prowazekii
KW - Rickettsia rickettsii
KW - Rickettsia typhi
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84963679515&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1590/S1678-9946201658033
DO - 10.1590/S1678-9946201658033
M3 - Review article
C2 - 27074327
AN - SCOPUS:84963679515
SN - 0036-4665
VL - 58
JO - Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo
JF - Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo
M1 - 33
ER -