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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.
A Letaief, H Ghannem
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[Boutonneuse fever in children].
Anales espanoles de pediatria, 1985Due to an increase in the number of cases of spotted fever, a prospective study was undertaken in 31 children affected by the disease, including clinical, laboratory and microbiological data from may to october of 1983. The most frequent symptoms found were: fever 100%, "tache noire" 87%, and a maculopapular rash 81%.
M J, García Miguel +5 more
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Subclinical Infections with Boutonneuse Fever in Western Sicily
Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1985S Mansueto, Mansueto S
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[Boutonneuse fever in childhood].
Anales espanoles de pediatria, 198435 cases of botonneuse Fever admitted in our hospital during the course of a year and a half are presented. They were all children between the age of 18 months and 11 years. The most common features were: fever, maculopapulous rush and "tache noir". Weil Felix test was not of diagnostic value in one third of the cases.
J L, Fernández Epifanio +5 more
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[Complications of boutonneuse fever].
Minerva medica, 1981Complications are rare in boutonneuse fever. This is clear from the brief review offered of the relevant literature. Reference is made to the clinical records of a personal series collected in Sicily during the current endemo-epidemic expansion of the disease through some regions of Italy. Primary complications appear in the form of cutaneous vesicles,
A, Scaffidi, G, Furitano, L, Scaffidi
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[Boutonneuse fever in clinical practice].
Minerva medica, 1981Boutonneuse fever has become endemic in some parts of Sicily and the Italian mainland over the last five years. An account is given of the features assisting its clinical recognition and serological verification. The main nosographical aspects of the disease are described. The conditions required for certain, probable and presumed diagnosis are stated,
L, Scaffidi, S, Mansueto
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[Boutonneuse fever and tourism].
Minerva medica, 1982In the last few years some cases of boutonneuse fever have been "imported" into Central and Northern European countries, where it was previously unknown, by tourists returning from African or Mediterranean countries where the disease is endemic. Data on the subject are summarised and the possibility of ticks carrying the disease being transported into ...
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[Use of pefloxacin in boutonneuse fever].
La Clinica terapeutica, 1991On the basis of previous studies, the authors tested pefloxacin, a new generation quinolone, for the treatment of Mediterranean spotted fever. Treatment with this drug brought about complete recovery with rapid subsidence of clinical symptoms and normalization of instrumental and laboratory parameters.
G, Di Lascio +3 more
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Boutonneuse Fever in American Travelers
Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1986R L, Harris +3 more
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[A severe form of Mediterranean boutonneuse fever].
Annales francaises d'anesthesie et de reanimation, 1984A severe case of boutonneuse fever was reported which was only diagnosed after death. The infectious syndrome and cutaneous eruption were associated with meningitis, encephalitis, hypoxaemia and thrombocytopaenia. The absence of an initial lesion ("tache noire") and the notion of recent German measles contamination explained the late diagnosis. Serious
M, Houvenaeghel +5 more
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