Case report of African tick-bite fever from Poland

A confirmed case of rickettsiosis acquired in South Africa and recognized in Poland was described. The patient fulfilled clinical criteria highly suggestive of African tick bite fever, such as eschars, regional lymphadenitis, cutaneous rash within 10 days after his return from sub-Saharan Africa. In...

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Autores principales: Chmielewski, Tomasz, Szymanek, Anna, Mączka, Ilona, Fiecek, Beata, Simon, Krzysztof, Tylewska-Wierzbanowska, Stanisława
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Publicado: Termedia Publishing House 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3907904/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24494003
http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/pdia.2013.39438
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author Chmielewski, Tomasz
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Fiecek, Beata
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description A confirmed case of rickettsiosis acquired in South Africa and recognized in Poland was described. The patient fulfilled clinical criteria highly suggestive of African tick bite fever, such as eschars, regional lymphadenitis, cutaneous rash within 10 days after his return from sub-Saharan Africa. Infection with Rickettsia africae was confirmed by polymerase chain reaction and sequencing.
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spelling pubmed-39079042014-02-03 Case report of African tick-bite fever from Poland Chmielewski, Tomasz Szymanek, Anna Mączka, Ilona Fiecek, Beata Simon, Krzysztof Tylewska-Wierzbanowska, Stanisława Postepy Dermatol Alergol Case Report A confirmed case of rickettsiosis acquired in South Africa and recognized in Poland was described. The patient fulfilled clinical criteria highly suggestive of African tick bite fever, such as eschars, regional lymphadenitis, cutaneous rash within 10 days after his return from sub-Saharan Africa. Infection with Rickettsia africae was confirmed by polymerase chain reaction and sequencing. Termedia Publishing House 2013-12-18 2013-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3907904/ /pubmed/24494003 http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/pdia.2013.39438 Text en Copyright © 2013 Termedia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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