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Todd Myers1, Tahaniyat Lalani, Mike Dent
1Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910, USA. Todd.myers@med.navy.mil
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|May 8, 2013
Abstract:
The typical clinical presentation of several spotted fever group Rickettsia infections includes eschars. Clinical diagnosis of the condition is usually made by analysis of blood samples. We describe a more sensitive, noninvasive means of obtaining a sample for diagnosis by using an eschar swab specimen from patients infected with Rickettsia parkeri.
