Cases of Mediterranean spotted fever in southeast of Iran

In this study the clinical manifestations, laboratory findings, and management of five patients diagnosed with Mediterranean spotted fever (MSF) from southeast of Iran are presented. All patients but one had recent tick-bite histories which were noticeable as black eschars (tache noire). Patients’ s...

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Autores principales: Farrokhnia, Mehrdad, Ghalejoogh, Zohreh Yousefi, Rohani, Mahdi, Ghasemi, Ahmad, Esmaeili, Saber, Mostafavi, Ehsan
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7340602/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32685123
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author Farrokhnia, Mehrdad
Ghalejoogh, Zohreh Yousefi
Rohani, Mahdi
Ghasemi, Ahmad
Esmaeili, Saber
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description In this study the clinical manifestations, laboratory findings, and management of five patients diagnosed with Mediterranean spotted fever (MSF) from southeast of Iran are presented. All patients but one had recent tick-bite histories which were noticeable as black eschars (tache noire). Patients’ samples were tested by real-time PCR and serology (IFA). The disease was confirmed by fourfold rising of IgG antibodies against Rickettsia conorii. This is the first report of MSF cases in Iran.
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spelling pubmed-73406022020-07-17 Cases of Mediterranean spotted fever in southeast of Iran Farrokhnia, Mehrdad Ghalejoogh, Zohreh Yousefi Rohani, Mahdi Ghasemi, Ahmad Esmaeili, Saber Mostafavi, Ehsan Iran J Microbiol Case Report In this study the clinical manifestations, laboratory findings, and management of five patients diagnosed with Mediterranean spotted fever (MSF) from southeast of Iran are presented. All patients but one had recent tick-bite histories which were noticeable as black eschars (tache noire). Patients’ samples were tested by real-time PCR and serology (IFA). The disease was confirmed by fourfold rising of IgG antibodies against Rickettsia conorii. This is the first report of MSF cases in Iran. Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2020-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7340602/ /pubmed/32685123 Text en Copyright© 2020 Iranian Neuroscience Society http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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