Fatal Rickettsia parkeri Rickettsiosis in Immunocompromised Pediatric Patient, Georgia, USA, 2025.

Authors

Stephanie Bellman, Thomas G Fox, Sunil S Raikar, Daniel John Bergsagel, Meredith Steuer, Kiran B Hebbar, Jennifer Kasten-Metz, Sandor E Karpathy, Christopher D Paddock, Kristy O Murray

Published in

Emerging infectious diseases. Volume 32. Issue 11. Pages 1893-1896.

Abstract

We describe a fatal Rickettsia parkeri rickettsiosis case in a 3-year-old boy in Georgia, USA, receiving chemotherapy for B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, hospitalized with febrile neutropenia. Plasma microbial cell-free DNA sequencing confirmed the diagnosis. This report highlights the need to maintain suspicion for tickborne diseases in immunocompromised hosts in some settings.

PMID:
42912437
Bibliographic data and abstract were imported from PubMed on 24 Oct 2026.

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