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

Author

Wang, Jin-Mei, Hudson, Bernard J., Watts, Matthew R., Karagiannis, Tom, Fisher, Noel J., Anderson, Catherine, and Roffey, Paul

Subjects
*REPORTING of diseases, *ENDEMIC flea-borne typhus, *TICKS as carriers of disease, *RICKETTSIAL diseases, *BACTERIAL diseases, *POLYMERASE chain reaction
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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2009
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