Fiebre botonosa mediterránea, un problema de salud pública en américa.

Abstract

Mediterranean botoneous fever is a pathology, caused by the bacterium Rickettsia conorii, which uses the specimen Rhipicephalus sanguineus or brown tick of the dog as a vector, and as an accidental host to the human being. Objective: To update knowledge about Mediterranean botox fever, a public health problem in America. Methods: Non-experimental, descriptive study of bibliographic review using as a source of information the review of articles published through a filter of maximum 5 years of publication of high-impact indexed journals in the medical community, such as PubMed, Elsevier, Scielo, and others. sources that served to complement the research, google academic server, clinical guides, and thesis works. Results and conclusions: Rickettsial diseases are of worldwide distribution, and depends on the climatic conditions of each country for their development, the absence of an epidemiological surveillance system in America is the determining factor for this pathology to become relevant.