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Tick bite fever in West Africa: difficulties in diagnosis of an emerging disease

Heaulme, M.; Couvreur, P.; Sicard, J.M.

Medecine Tropicale Revue du Corps de Sante Colonial 69(6): 595-598

2009

ISSN/ISBN: 0025-682X
PMID: 20099678
Document Number: 635124
West African tick bite fever is a prevalent emerging zoonosis from the coast of Senegal to Chad. It is characterized by recurrent fever in association with a deteriorating clinical state. It is now the second most common vector-borne disease in Senegal. The purpose of this report is to describe one case and to review the main clinical and epidemiological features of this disease.

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