South African tick bite fever in a group of Russian tourists
- Authors: Kozhevnikova GM1, Tokmalaev AK1, Voznesenskiĭ SL1, Karan' LS2
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Affiliations:
- ФГАОУ ВПО "Российский университет дружбы народов", Москва
- ФБУН "Центральный НИИ эпидемиологии" Роспотребнадзора, Москва
- Issue: Vol 86, No 11 (2014)
- Pages: 82-83
- Section: Editorial
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0040-3660/article/view/31658
- ID: 31658
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The paper describes a clinical case of South African tick bite fever in a group of Russian tourists. The group of 5 people who had been ill with this disease after a tourist trip to the South African Republic (the Kruger National Park in the north-eastern province of Mpumalanga) were followed up. During their trip, all of them were bitten by different insects many times. The disease exhibited different clinical presentations; however, all the patients were noted to have a fever with slight intoxication and a maculopapular rash at different sites of the body; 3 had lymphadenopathy and one had a primary effect at the site of tick sticking. The diagnosis was verified by indirect immunofluorescence for the detection of high titers to Rickettsia сonorii. The course of the disease was favorable in all the patients treated with antibiotics (doxycycline or ceftriaxone).
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G M Kozhevnikova
ФГАОУ ВПО "Российский университет дружбы народов", Москва
A K Tokmalaev
ФГАОУ ВПО "Российский университет дружбы народов", Москва
S L Voznesenskiĭ
ФГАОУ ВПО "Российский университет дружбы народов", Москва
L S Karan'
ФБУН "Центральный НИИ эпидемиологии" Роспотребнадзора, Москва
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