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The first human case of Rickettsia slovaca from Turkey
Melike Emiroglu1, Bekir Celebi2, Gulsum Alkan1
1Selcuk University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Konya, Turkey.
Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases
|June 14, 2021
Abstract:
A three year-old girl was admitted to our university hospital with fever, muscle and abdominal pain, and painful cervical lymph nodes after a tick bite on scalp. Rickettsia slovaca DNA was detected in eschar tissue taken from the bite site. This is the first clinical case of a R. slovaca infection reported from Turkey.

