Epidemiological description of infection with agents of the Rickettsia genus in rodents, ectoparasites and humans in the northern coast of Antioquia, Colombia

摘要

Background: Rickettsia is a worldwide usually rodent-carried tick, flea or lice-borne bacteria. In Colombia, few reports have beed performed, first in the mids thirties causing an outbreak in the population of Tobia Cundinamarca, and from the years 2006 to 2008 in the Northern region of Colombia known as Urabá. Our main goal was to perform an epidemiological description of the infection in the endemic mentioned area in Colombia.