A 28-year-old woman from Himachal Pradesh presents with fever, rash on wrists and ankles spreading centripetally, and thrombocytopenia (platelet count 75,000/μL). Blood culture and PCR for scrub typhus are negative. Which finding would most strongly support a diagnosis of Rocky Mountain spotted fever over scrub typhus?

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