Cardiac involvement in a patient with clinical and serological evidence of African tick-bite fever

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Bellini, Cristina ^a   Monti, Matteo ^a   Potin, Mathieu ^a   Dalle Ave, Anne ^a   Bille, Jacques ^a   Greub, Gilbert ^a,b  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CREATINE KINASE; HEART ENZYME; TROPONIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; DOXYCYCLINE;

ADULT; AFRICAN TICK BITE FEVER; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INOCULATION; LYMPHADENITIS; MALE; MYOCARDITIS; RARE DISEASE; RICKETTSIA AFRICAE; RICKETTSIOSIS; SEROCONVERSION; SEROLOGY; THORAX PAIN; TRAVEL; ANIMAL; BITES AND STINGS; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PERICARDITIS; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION; SOUTH AFRICA; TICK; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BITES AND STINGS; DOXYCYCLINE; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDITIS; PERICARDITIS; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; SOUTH AFRICA; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; TICKS; TRAVEL;

EID: 27744571776     PISSN: 14712334     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-5-90     Document Type: Article

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