Images in clinical tropical medicine: Tache noire in African tick bite fever

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 733-734

  Tappe, Dennis ^a   Dobler, Gerhard ^b   Stich, August ^a  

^a Medical Mission Hospital   (Germany)

^b BUNDESWEHR INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOXYCYCLINE;

ABDOMEN; AMPLICON; ARM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALAISE; RASH; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIOSIS; RURAL AREA; SOUTH AFRICA; TICK BITE; TISSUE NECROSIS; TRAVEL; ADULT; AFRICA; ANIMAL; BITES AND STINGS; PATHOLOGY; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION; SKIN; TICK; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

IXODIDA;

ADULT; AFRICA; ANIMALS; BITES AND STINGS; FEMALE; HUMANS; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; SKIN; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; TICKS; TRAVEL;

EID: 70449707624     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2009.09-0385     Document Type: Article

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