Colorado tick fever

Colorado tick fever
Other namesMountain tick fever, American tick fever, American mountain tick fever
Geographic distribution of Dermacentor andersoni ticks and Colorado tick fever virus disease cases, United States, 2010–2019.
SpecialtyInfectious disease

Colorado tick fever (CTF) is a viral infection transmitted from the bite of an infected Rocky Mountain wood tick (Dermacentor andersoni). It should not be confused with the bacterial tick-borne infection, Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Colorado tick fever is probably the same disease that American pioneers referred to as "mountain fever".[1][2]

Colorado tick fever virus (CTFV) infects haemopoietic cells, particularly erythrocytes, which explains how the virus is transmitted by ticks and also accounts for the incidence of transmission by blood transfusion.

  1. ^ Aldous JA, Nicholes PS (1997). "What Is Mountain Fever?". Overland Journal. 15 (Spring): 18–23.
  2. ^ Aldous JA. (1997). "Mountain Fever in the 1847 Mormon Pioneer Companies" (PDF). Nauvoo Journal. 9 (Fall): 52–59.
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