Rickettsia sibirica mongolitimonae in traveler from Egypt

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1495-1496

  Socolovschi, Cristina ^a   Barbarot, Sébastien ^b   Lefebvre, Maeva ^b   Parola, Philippe ^a   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b NANTES UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; DOXYCYCLINE; GENTAMICIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; ASTHENIA; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CASE REPORT; DIARRHEA; EGYPT; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MYALGIA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RICKETTSIA SIBIRICA; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TRAVEL;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; EGYPT; FRANCE; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRAVEL;

EID: 77956034334     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1609.100258     Document Type: Letter

References (8)

1. Parola P, Paddock CD, Raoult D. Tick borne rickettsioses around the world: emerging diseases challenging old concepts. Clin Microbiol Rev. 2005;18:719-56. DOI: 10.1128/CMR.18.4.719-756.2005
2. Wilson ME, Weld LH, Boggild A, Keystone JS, Kain KC, von Sonnenburg F, et al. Fever in returned travelers: results from the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network. Clin Infect Dis. 2007;44:1560-8. DOI: 10.1086/518173
3. Loftis AD, Reeves WK, Szumlas DE, Abbassy MM, Helmy IM, Moriarity JR, et al. Rickettsial agents in Egyptian ticks collected from domestic animals. Exp Appl Acarol. 2006;40:67-81. DOI: 10.1007/s10493-006-9025-2
4. Fournier PE, Gouriet F, Brouqui P, Lucht F, Raoult D. Lymphangitis-associated rickettsiosis, a new rickettsiosis caused by Rickettsia sibirica mongolotimonae: Seven new cases and review of the literature. Clin Infect Dis. 2005;40:1435-44. DOI: 10.1086/429625
5. Fournier PE, Raoult D. Identifi cation of rickettsial isolates at the species level using multi-spacer typing. BMC Microbiol. 2007;7:72. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-7-72
6. Caron J, Rolain JM, Mura F, Guillot B, Raoult D, Bessis D. Rickettsia sibirica subsp. mongolitimonae infection and retinal vasculitis. Emerg Infect Dis. 2008;14:683-4. DOI: 10.3201/eid1404.070859
7. Fournier PE, Tissot-Dupont H, Gallais H, Raoult D. Rickettsia mongolotimonae: a rare pathogen in France. Emerg Infect Dis. 2000;6:290-2. DOI: 10.3201/eid0603.000309
8. De Sousa R, Barata C, Vitorino L, Santos-Silva M, Carrapato C, Torgal J, et al. Rickettsia sibirica isolation from a patient and detection in ticks, Portugal. Emerg Infect Dis. 2006;12:1103-8.