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Rickettsia parkeri infection after tick bite, Virginia

Emerging Infectious Diseases (2007) 13(2) 334-336
DOI: 10.3201/eid1302.061295
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Abstract

We describe a man with a febrile illness and an eschar that developed at the site of a tick bite. Rickettsia parkeri was detected and isolated from the eschar. This report represents the second documented case of R. parkeri rickettsiosis in a US serviceman in eastern Virginia.

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Whitman, T. J., Richards, A. L., Paddock, C. D., Tamminga, C. L., Sniezek, P. J., Jiang, J., … Sanders, J. W. (2007). Rickettsia parkeri infection after tick bite, Virginia. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 13(2), 334–336. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1302.061295

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