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African tick bite fever: not a spotless rickettsiosis!
Laurence Toutous-Trellu1, Olivier Péter, Pierre Chavaz
1Dermatology Department, Geneva University Hospital, Genéve, Switzerland. laurence.Trellu@hcuge.ch
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
|February 13, 2003
Abstract:
African tick bite fever is caused by Rickettsia africae, a newly recognized species from South Africa. We report the case of a patient with an unusual site of a tick bite and discuss cutaneous differences from other spotted fevers that may help dermatologists with clinical diagnosis.