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   Can doxycycline treat Rocky Mountain spotted fever?

   • Doxycycline is the only antibiotic recommended to treat Rocky Mountain spotted fever. If you’re allergic to doxycycline, your healthcare provider may give you chloramphenicol as an alternative. Chloramphenicol can be hard to get in some countries and doesn’t work as well as doxycycline for RMSF.

   Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever: Causes, Symptoms & Treatment

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   How is Rocky Mountain spotted fever diagnosed?

   • Your provider can use blood and skin tests to diagnose Rocky Mountain spotted fever, but the results may not be available right away. Your provider will probably have to decide whether to treat you for RMSF before you test positive. Blood tests. Your provider will take a sample of your blood to test for the bacteria that causes RMSF.

   Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever: Causes, Symptoms & Treatment

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   What is Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF)?

   • Despite its name, Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) occurs in practically all of the United States and throughout Central and South America. Small-vessel vasculitis can cause serious illness affecting the central nervous system, lungs, heart, kidneys, liver, and spleen; untreated mortality is about 20%.

   Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (RMSF) - Infectious Diseases - Merck

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   May 15, 2024 · Key points. Doxycycline is the treatment of choice for RMSF and all other tickborne rickettsial diseases. Doxycycline is recommended for presumptive treatment in patients of all ages, including those under 8 years old and pregnant people.

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   Rocky Mountain spotted fever is a serious bacterial infection transmitted by ticks. Learn about its epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment with doxycycline or chloramphenicol.

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   Mar 28, 2024 · Learn about the recommended empiric therapy with doxycycline for patients with suspected RMSF, a potentially lethal tick-borne disease. Find out the criteria for diagnosis, the risk factors for mortality, and the sources of this information.

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   Aug 25, 2022 · Learn about RMSF, a serious illness caused by a tick bite and treated with antibiotics. Find out how to prevent, diagnose and manage RMSF and its complications.

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   Learn about the symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of RMSF, a serious bacterial infection transmitted by ticks. Antibiotics are usually prescribed to treat RMSF, but untreated cases can lead to complications or death.