Cardiac involvement in a patient with clinical and serological evidence of African tick-bite fever

BACKGROUND: Myocarditis and pericarditis are rare complications of rickettsiosis, usually associated with Rickettsia rickettsii and R. conorii. African tick-bite fever (ATBF) is generally considered as a benign disease and no cases of myocardial involvement due to Rickettsia africae, the agent of AT...

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Autores principales: Bellini, Cristina, Monti, Matteo, Potin, Mathieu, Ave, Anne Dalle, Bille, Jacques, Greub, Gilbert
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1274315/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16242016
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-5-90

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1274315/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16242016
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-5-90

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