Diagnosis of Queensland Tick Typhus and African Tick Bite Fever by PCR of Lesion Swabs

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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. ; Anderson, Catherine ; Roffey, Paul
• 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.
• Subjects:
  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

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 15(6):963-965.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Queensland, Australia ; South Africa
• Location:
  Oceania ; Africa
• Volume:
  15
• Issue:
  6
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:08f3d1ad9ef521a1c4825690ff541f13e1bb46615a30951e25e9dcb7d76a8d10
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/17697/cdc_17697_DS1.pdf
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