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Evaluation of Clinical Diagnosis Scores for Boutonneuse Fever
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2003Abstract: Mediterranean spotted fever (MSF) is endemic in Tunisia. Diagnosis is confirmed retrospectively based on serology. Clinical features are suggestive of diagnosis if the triad (fever, rash, and eschar) is present. Otherwise clinical diagnosis could be difficult. A diagnosis score was already proposed by Raoult et al.
J. Souissi +4 more
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Pathogenesis of rickettsial eschars: The tache noire of boutonneuse fever
Human Pathology, 1988Prospective investigation of cutaneous lesions of 24 Sicilian patients revealed that 17 were taches noires from patients with a documented diagnosis of boutonneuse fever. Immunofluorescent Rickettsia conorii were demonstrated in 14 of 17 taches noires.
Serafino Mansueto +4 more
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Boutonneuse fever in Portugal: 1995–2000. Data of a state laboratory
European Journal of Epidemiology, 2003From 1995 through 2000, 3239 clinical samples were tested for rickettsiosis at the Center for Vectors and Infectious Diseases Research--National Health Institute in Portugal. Boutonneuse fever due to R. conorii Malish or R. conorii Israel was laboratory confirmed in 374 samples (11.5%). Clinical and epidemiological features are discussed.
A. Santos +4 more
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Familial cases of boutonneuse fever
European Journal of Epidemiology, 1987Pairs of cases of Boutonneuse Fever (BF) occurred in three families. The illness appeared almost simultaneously in both members of each family, but was generally more serious in one as judged by clinical and laboratory parameters. The possibility of a "bed rickettsiosis", that is reactivation of rickettsiae by the blood meal obtained from the first ...
G. Tringali +6 more
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Fieber und Exanthem nach Mittelmeerurlaub - mediterranes Fleckfieber (»fièvre boutonneuse«)¹ [PDF]
DMW - Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift, 2001 In connection with a period of residence in the Mediterranean basin (Portugal, Spain, Sicily) one woman and two men (age: 28, 31 and 40 years) got sick with fever in August and in the midst of October. In addition, they complained about headache in two cases and myalgias, arthralgia and vomiting in one case, respectively.
F. W. Tischendorf, G. Kreuzpaintner
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[Acute polyradiculoneuritis associated with boutonneuse fever].
Acta medica portuguesa, 1994We have recorded three cases of Mediterranean fever harboring peripheral nerve involvement. According to the time of occurrence of the neurological symptoms, the cerebrospinal fluid analysis and electromyographic features, we admit that the peripheral nervous system can be involved in two ways in this disease.
Teresinha Evangelista +2 more
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Laboratory diagnosis of boutonneuse fever by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1989Little is known about the use of the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) in the diagnosis of boutonneuse fever, and the reports which do exist have concerned the use of a strain of African origin and a peroxidase-labelled conjugate. We have used, as antigen, a Sicilian strain of Rickettsia conorii recently isolated from a patient with boutonneuse
I. Friscia +7 more
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Malignant boutonneuse fever and polymyalgia rheumatica: A coincidental association?
Infection, 1997Mediterranean spotted fever is a tick-borne disease that is endemic in the Mediterranean basin from spring to autumn. Usually mild, the disease can be severe in some cases, especially when risk factors are encountered in patients or when treatment is delayed.
C. Bibollet +6 more
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[Sepsis shock and respiratory distress during boutonneuse fever in a HIV infected patient].
Medicina clínica (Ed. impresa), 2011Diana García Noguera +3 more
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