[Boutonneuse fever in tourists as a model for clinical diagnosis of rickettsioses (author's transl)].

Authors
Category Primary study
JournalMMW, Munchener medizinische Wochenschrift
Year 1979
Case histories of boutonneuse fever are described in order to exemplify major characteristics of most rickettsioses: recent travel history, feverish illness with severe headache, skin eruptions and histological findings. Up-to-date informations concerning the epidemiologic situation of typhus, scrub typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever are given. The characteristics of Q fever and the possibility of rickettsial laboratory infections are pointed out.
Epistemonikos ID: d03e63cbb334c449081ff68a521c2484ae57ebfd
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