Malignant Mediterranean spotted fever

Fever with rash is one of the most common causes of referral to a dermatologist. A plethora of conditions need to be considered in the differential diagnosis. They may be broadly classified into infectious causes, drug reactions, and autoimmune disorders. Here we present a rare case of rickettsial f...

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Autores principales: Lunge, Snehal Balvant, Patil, Vaibhav, Ambar, Sameer, Naik, Vishwas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4738506/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26904440
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2229-5178.171050
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description Fever with rash is one of the most common causes of referral to a dermatologist. A plethora of conditions need to be considered in the differential diagnosis. They may be broadly classified into infectious causes, drug reactions, and autoimmune disorders. Here we present a rare case of rickettsial fever with cardiac involvement in an elderly male patient with no comorbidities.
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spelling pubmed-47385062016-02-22 Malignant Mediterranean spotted fever Lunge, Snehal Balvant Patil, Vaibhav Ambar, Sameer Naik, Vishwas Indian Dermatol Online J Case Report Fever with rash is one of the most common causes of referral to a dermatologist. A plethora of conditions need to be considered in the differential diagnosis. They may be broadly classified into infectious causes, drug reactions, and autoimmune disorders. Here we present a rare case of rickettsial fever with cardiac involvement in an elderly male patient with no comorbidities. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4738506/ /pubmed/26904440 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2229-5178.171050 Text en Copyright: © Indian Dermatology Online Journal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4738506/
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