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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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BioMed Central
2005
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| 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 |