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Alternative Title:
Emerg Infect Dis
Personal Author:
Wang, Jin-Mei ; Hudson, Bernard J. ; Watts, Matthew R. ; Karagiannis, Tom ; Fisher, Noel J. ; ... More +
Wang, Jin-Mei ; Hudson, Bernard J. ; Watts, Matthew R. ; Karagiannis, Tom ; Fisher, Noel J. ; Anderson, Catherine ; Roffey, Paul ; Less -
Description:
We report 3 cases of Queensland tick typhus (QTT) and 1 case of African tick bite fever in which the causative rickettsiae were detected by PCR of eschar and skin lesions in all cases. An oral mucosal lesion in 1 QTT case was also positive.
Subject:
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Adult
Aged
Animals
Dispatch
Female
Humans
Insect Bites And Stings
Male
Middle Aged
Mouth Mucosa
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Rickettsia Infections
Sequence Analysis, DNA
Skin
Specimen Handling
Tick-Borne Diseases
Typhus, Epidemic Louse-Borne

Source:
Emerg Infect Dis. 15(6):963-965.
Document Type:
Journal Article ;
Place as Subject:
Queensland, Australia ; South Africa ;
Queensland, Australia ; South Africa ; Less -
Collection(s):
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Main Document Checksum:
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urn:sha256:08f3d1ad9ef521a1c4825690ff541f13e1bb46615a30951e25e9dcb7d76a8d10
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