The first human case of Rickettsia slovaca from Turkey

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作者
Emiroglu, Melike [1 ]
Celebi, Bekir [2 ]
Alkan, Gulsum [1 ]
Yilmaz, Yusuf [2 ]
机构
[1] Selcuk Univ, Dept Pediat, Div Pediat Infect Dis, Fac Med, Alaeddin Keykubat Campus, TR-42130 Konya, Turkey
[2] Minist Hlth, Gen Directorate Publ Hlth, Microbiol Reference Labs, Ankara, Turkey
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SPOTTED-FEVER;
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10.1016/j.ttbdis.2021.101755
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R51 [传染病];
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100401 ;
摘要
A three year-old girl was admitted to our university hospital with fever, muscle and abdominal pain, and painful cervical lymph nodes after a tick bite on scalp. Rickettsia slovaca DNA was detected in eschar tissue taken from the bite site. This is the first clinical case of a R. slovaca infection reported from Turkey.
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