PMID: 20099678Jan 27, 2010Paper

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

Médecine tropicale : revue du Corps de santé colonial
M HeaulmeJ M Sicard

Abstract

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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