Colorado Tick Fever
"Colorado Tick Fever" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A febrile illness characterized by chills, aches, vomiting, leukopenia, and sometimes encephalitis. It is caused by the COLORADO TICK FEVER VIRUS, a reovirus transmitted by the tick Dermacentor andersoni.
| Descriptor ID |
D003121
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C02.081.885.200 C02.782.791.482
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Klasco R. Colorado tick fever. Med Clin North Am. 2002 Mar; 86(2):435-40, ix.