A forty-year review of Rocky Mountain spotted fever cases in California shows clinical and epidemiologic changes

• Anne M. Kjemtrup ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: anne.kjemtrup@cdph.ca.gov

  Affiliation California Department of Public Health, Sacramento, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5788-7621

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• Kerry Padgett,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation California Department of Public Health, Richmond, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9535-3401

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• Christopher D. Paddock,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Sharon Messenger,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation California Department of Public Health, Richmond, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6861-7267

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• Jill K. Hacker,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation California Department of Public Health, Richmond, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7063-6827

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• Tina Feiszli,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation California Department of Public Health, Richmond, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6041-5126

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• Michael Melgar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3243-9854

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• Marco E. Metzger,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation California Department of Public Health, Ontario, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6560-0678

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• Renjie Hu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation California Department of Public Health, Ontario, California, United States of America

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• Vicki L. Kramer

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation California Department of Public Health, Sacramento, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9325-9200

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