1. Diagnosis of Queensland Tick Typhus and African Tick Bite Fever by PCR of Lesion Swabs
- Author
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Jin Mei Wang, Bernard J Hudson, Catherine Anderson, Matthew R Watts, Thomas Karagiannis, Noel J Fisher, and Paul Roffey
- Subjects
Microbiology (medical) ,Adult ,Male ,Epidemiology ,vector-borne infections ,lcsh:Medicine ,Eschar ,Biology ,African tick bite fever ,Insect bites and stings ,Polymerase Chain Reaction ,lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases ,Specimen Handling ,Lesion ,South Africa ,parasitic diseases ,medicine ,Animals ,Humans ,lcsh:RC109-216 ,Queensland tick typhus ,Rickettsia ,swabs ,Aged ,Skin ,Tick-borne disease ,lcsh:R ,Dispatch ,Australia ,Mouth Mucosa ,Insect Bites and Stings ,Rickettsia Infections ,Sequence Analysis, DNA ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,biology.organism_classification ,bacterial infections and mycoses ,Virology ,tick ,Infectious Diseases ,PCR ,Tick-Borne Diseases ,Female ,Queensland ,medicine.symptom ,Skin lesion ,Typhus, Epidemic Louse-Borne ,spotted fever - Abstract
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.
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- 2009