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Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd · Sep 2003
Case Reports[Diagnostic image (157). A man with fever and a 'tache noire' after a holiday in South Africa. Rickettsiosis, probably African tick-bite fever].
- B M Diederen and A G Buiting.
- Streeklaboratorium voor de Volksgezondheid, Laboratorium voor Medische Microbiologie en Immunologie, Postbus 747, 5000 AS Tilburg. b.diederen@elisabeth.nl
- Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2003 Sep 20; 147 (38): 1852.
AbstractA 54-year-old man presented with fever and an eschar, probably caused by African tick-bite fever, contracted during a holiday in South Africa. He recovered rapidly after treatment with doxycyclin.
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