Rickettsiosis, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever a current public health problem
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Rickettsioses are a group of bacterial infections of zoonotic origin caused by intracellular bacteria of the genera Rickettsia and Orientia. These infections are transmitted to humans by arthropod vectors such as ticks, fleas, lice and mites. These illnes present clinically as acute febrile illnesses accompanied by symptoms such as headache, myalgia and general malaise, as well as skin manifestations that may include rash and scars and vary according to the species of rickettsia identified. From the point of view of public health and its impact on the population, the most important is Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF), a serious infection caused by the bacteria, Rickettsia rickettsii, a pleomorphic, obligate intracellular coccobacillus, which was discovered in 1908 by Howard Ricketts who died of rickettsiosis in 1910 in Mexico, was first described in the Rocky Mountain region of the United States, and has been reported in Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Brazil and Argentina. In Mexico, the most affected region is the north of the country, where the fatality rate reaches an average of 30%, mainly affecting the vulnerable population, including children and adults in conditions of poverty, overcrowding and unhealthy environments.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.016 | 0.003 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".